I recall hearing that the WalMart resell is a different (pre-release or
eval) version
of Mandrake 7.2 than what you may find at say "<some>.com". Can anyone
else confirm?
Otherwise, thanks for the quick review, Brian.
Si
Brian Chabot wrote:
>
> Well, I felt weak and actually bought a copy of Mandrake Linux 7.2 at,
> of all places, Walmart.
>
> I'm sort of impressed. The install is as smooth as 7.0, but with
> slightly better autodetect of the hardware. What REALLY impressed me is
> actually the initial boot.... IT'S GRAPHICAL!
>
> You know when you boot a *nix, how you get to watch all the nifty
> notices scroll past, but miss some and end up looking them up in
> /var/log? Well, miss no more... you can use a mouse to scroll back
> through them.
>
> OK, so it means next to nothing to any guru, but I think this is a huge
> plus for newbies. There's also a better help system and KDE 2 is very
> pretty.
>
> I'll post more once I get a chance to play with it.
>
> Oh, also, I've decided that Enlightenment is preeeeety. I think it'll
> be my default WM for a while.......
>
> Brian
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spam me and DIE! |
> | http://www.datasquire.net |
> | Co-Founder & Co-Owner of |
> | Data Squire Internet Services |
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> **********************************************************
> To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the
> *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter:
> unsubscribe gnhlug
> **********************************************************
--
Si Chung e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Director, QA & Release Engineering voice: 978-606-0249
Mission Critical Linux, Inc. fax: 978-446-9470
100 Foot Of John Street web: http://www.mclx.com
Lowell, MA 01852
**********************************************************
To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the
*body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter:
unsubscribe gnhlug
**********************************************************
