On Saturday 09 Oct 2004 17:43, g2 wrote: > > I can definitely reccomend Mandrake to people switching who want to do > basic computer functions and not install allot of new software and change > things around. Installation was easy and the system and software were very > usable. > As I'm sure you realise, linux is not only good for basic needs. However, the problems you have met spring largely from having pre-conceived ideas (we all have them if we have used a different OS) and having to learn new ways of doing things, as well as being adventurous in trying things out. Sometimes things get broken that way ;-) There's usually plenty of help in sorting them, but, of course, it takes time.
> Unfortunately I never tried the mandrake club service. I understand that > might have helped allot in providing ready made rmps of a lot of software. > I did want to try it but was just never ready to spend the money on a six > month subscription. I wish they offered a very short trial subscription so > that one could see its usefullness. I certainly would have paid $5 for > instance to use it for a day or a few days in order to try it out. > I wonder if you had sources set up for additional programs? There are many more available in rpms for Mandrake than those on the cds. If you are interested in looking further, you might like to try urpmi.org/easyurpmi to get additional souces - in particular plf, which is a repository for apps that cannot be included in the distro for licensing issues. There are other useful ones, too, and I'm sure people will give you urls for them if you want them. > PS: just out of curiosity, is there a way to have both mandrake and windows > running at the same time on a single processor? I realize that this would > greatly affect system resources, if it is even possible, but I was just > wondering. I currently have a dual boot setup. > You can run much of windows software, using wine, win4lin or vmware, but they will only work if you have the hardware working under linux. Good luck! Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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