you are not alone Susan ---
This whole thing has me wondering also. I bought 7.0 & 7.1 at Office Depot or Office
something (they all look alike) for $20 a pop and had no problems at all with any of
the CDs, installs or anything. now I'm seeing people on this list saying that the 7.2
they are getting at the store doesn't have all the features and all sort of other
strange stuff...... what up with this? I suppose Macmillan, like any other company,
is going to box anything it thinks it can sell, but if this release has problems why
is Mandrake letting them release it (i'm assuming they have some say in the matter) as
this is just going to bouce back and slap Mandrake in the end. I'm very very very
happy with 7.1 and i hope to be one more very (very cubed) happy with 7.2. i was
gonna buy the boxed version (since the manuals are not bad - and the install
instuctions are so detailed even i installed 7.0 right the first time) but now me
thinks i should just go with the disk from linuxcentral or something......
Adrian Smith
'de telepone dude
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>>> "S. Stubbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 7:26:48 AM 11/15/00 >>>
Hey, I am a bit peeved. When mandrake 7.2 came out, I went and
downloaded the ISOs. I got DSL and CDburner so it was easy.
Well, being a newbie, I wanted to get a manual or something, and
heard that if you buy a distro, it comes with extra CDs of apps and
stuff, and of course a manual. So I wanted support and all these things.
Well I went to Wal-mart and bought Mandrake 7.2 Complete Retail
box version since it had 4 CDs and manual.
I take home and install. Then I started having a few quirks and problems,
of course I did mandrake update to update the prerelease version of
kde to final 2.0 version, and other stufff.
Well, still had a few quirks. I missed my Webmin tool from 7.1 and
I missed a few networking tools from 7.1 but alas they were no where
to be found on the walmart distro. I was quite perturbed and disheartened.
Finally late last night I went and viewed my downloaded ISOs of
7.2, and FOUND WEBMIN and MORE STUFF on the downloaded version!!
So, since my walmart distro was not quite right, I took a chance and
installed afresh the downloaded 7.2. NO MORE prerelease kde!!!
I had hardly any updates necessary!! I got more networking stuff, everything
seems to be running better!! The downloaded version is MUCH better.
I am definitely PEEVED that I spent $$ for the walmart version and would
like to know if there is a way to contact macmillan since I think they are
misleading people about the retail box version!!
I am just an inquiring "newbie" mind, saying my rant.
susan
