Irc: Efnet: #linuxhelp is a good place to get help
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Philp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] M6 is trash
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I have had constant troubbles since installing M6. I have posted a few
> > questions here and the expert list and received no answers. If this was
> > my first experiance with Linux I would most certanily be a Microsoft
> > customer for life. I asked for assistance on sound and scsi problems,
> > got none, figured that one out eventually. Asked for assistance on Jaz
> > locking up, got no response and it still does not work. Now it does not
> > seem that I can compile any KDE apps due to qt errors. I guess I will
> > not get anything but flames for this post but I am totally discusted
> > with the non-support I have encountered. Since I know what a good Linux
> > box will do I will just have to search out a stable distribution I
> > guess.
>
> Have you considered contacting LinuxCare, or one of the other nationwide
> companies that offer Linux support? I'm sure that they'll be more than
> happy to solve your problem in exchange for your credit card number. If
> you're not up to paying for support, have you considered Usenet
> newsgroups or the #linux channel on most IRC servers? Maybe a Deja News
> or AltaVista (or even Google!) search could point you in the right
> direction?
>
> I hope that you'll understand that the Mandrake user community is
> relatively small, and we're limited in the hardware that we have
> available to us. For most of us, it's whatever we happen to have on our
> home machines.
>
> Finally, I hope you'll understand that the people who populate these
> mailing lists are end users just like yourself. We're not compensated
> in any way by MandrakeSoft or anyone else. We help each other out of
> the goodness of our heart, and because most of us feel some sort of
> "debt" to the people who helped us out when we were new.
>
> Thanks for trying Linux,
>
> --
> Steve Philp
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
