I posted earlier, and just wish to mention, that in all fairness, some people will have issues which will be unresolveable, despite buying a distro, having New hardware and having some experience with Linux.
I have always paid for a boxed set including mandrake 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, and 8.1, as well as a dozen other distros including suse and redhat. I await 8.2 as I could not successfully install 8.1 on a new MB/ 1000 Mhz athlon New Hard drive / Mem/ etc. Otherwise , why would people repeatedly say "your mileage may vary" on so many things. Don't misunderstand, I am an almost exclusive Mandrake man Period ! Only keep the windows junk on a seperate box for One application which Will never run in linux. ( No it really never will ) Mandrake Is absoulutely awesome, and The best of the pack, however it's not perfect yet, nor does it work with all hardware configurations out here- Yet ;-) I really wanted to install 8.1 but it simply was too flaky to keep. Yes support Linux ( esp. Mandrake! ) by all means Pay for cd's that will help. But let's be candid and and admit we are all waiting for a distro with everything that's just right, otherwise we would not upgrade. end of rant. Mike McNeese Springdale Arkansas USA Linus user # 248955 ------------------------------------- If obstacles are all you see, you have lost sight of the goal!
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