On Friday 14 December 2001 09:19, you wrote: > I picked up mandrake 8.1 and found severals faults with it... when you determined these to be faults of the OS, did you consider it might be a "misconfiguratiion due to lack of installer experance?
> > 1.) Why would one buy the standard version without a video/audio player for > the internet such as real player. starnge, MY standard version came with a number of capable video players, just depends on the video compressor used by the video creater. some M$ products are not ported to Linux due to the "secret" nature of the software, and laws that make it a crime to figure out how someone else did what they did, if you let anyone know you have figured out what they did (DCMA) > 2.) I find when you download a rpm file from the internet and want to > install it, it won't let you install it because of some error with db3 > stuff.. well knowing what the error YOU had said (as opposed to some error with db3), might be a big help in figuring out what erro YOU had. > I thought I'd save money as I only have $40.00 per month for spending money > and download the other free stuff to save money. Now I hope I can get my > money back when I take it back where I got it.. only if the box is un-opened would be my bet. if you can download, but only have 40.00 bucks per month speding money, did you know you can down load the whole distro for free? with that little spare cash tho, I might suggest that working a second job might be a better idea than spending time watching downloads of mpgs and listening to MP3s, but that's just the opinion of a man with teenage offspring. of course, if I managed $ 40.00 at the end of the month, my kids would want to spend it too. > If the problem I encountered as above with No. 2 , then I will have to > forget about mandrake and go with another distro after the years of using > Mandrake. > does anyone have any idea about No.2 or have the same problem.. I don't have any problem with going "#2" I am as regular as anyoone who eats a prune oatmeal muffin every morning, and I don't have a problem going #1 either, nice of you to ask. < big stupid OLD rednecky grin> Ohhh,, you are asking about the second problem. would also help to know the complete name of the RPM you are trying to install. > > Harold
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