Good advice, but my budget is terribly limited. I want so many things for my vegetable garden that no matter how much I want the linux system up and running, I must get what I can fo free. I am still dlding move. I am almost half way there. Besides this dld has taught me several things to speed up dlding. I eliminate all unnecessary processes in my task manager and dld much smoother at a about a twenty percent increase in speed.
On 28 Dec 2004 at 20:21, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 01:30 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You could be very right. Unfortunately, I haven't installed > > mandrake yet. My local guru and friend advises against it. I don't > > want to make him less happy so, I will wait until he builds my new > > system in a couple months. > Meanwhile I am trying to dld Man Move > so I can get my feet wet. > Having only dialup service it will be 35 > more hours of dlding a > little at a time to get it. DSL Is two miles > out of range for me. > > > 6977: > You can buy the CD's for many Linux distributions from several sources > and at a reasonable cost, too. I've had good experience with > www.cheapbytes.com, but there are others -- linuxcentral.com comes to > mind. Of course, if you want the real Mandrake stuff which not only > include manuals and support but also a lot of software that is _not_ > available in the download editions, consider the Mandrake Store. Plus > you get the added benefit of putting a few bucks in Mandrake's pocket. > -- cmg > >
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