S:
Thanks!!!
But how the process of learning MDK has been?
Did you bought books?
Did you downloaded documents or what did you do?
Chava
>From: s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] Distro
>Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 22:22:49 +0000
>
>I chose Mandrake because when my curiosity became aroused, I found a site
>which people listed reasons why they thought a particular distro was good
>for
>newbies. I chose SuSe 6.4. I didn't have much luck. Never got the sound
>or
>modem to work. So then another site had people recommending Mandrake and
>Corel, but something that I can't really express made me pick Mandrake 7.1.
>Well it was pretty good, but still didn't have the time to devote to it,
>and
>as a result didn't get the sound or modem working. Not to give up, when
>all
>the press came out about 7.2, my spouse got tired of my talking about
>wanting
>it and picked me up a $30 boxed set from Babbages or somewhere. Well, for
>30
>bucks I wasn't going to give up til it was working. So it took me about a
>week to get the sound and modem working, but now I know how and can go from
>a
>complete re-install to downloading the updates while listening to Mozart in
>less than an hour.
>Our local LUG gave me copies of Caldera 2.4 and Kondora Server 2000. Could
>get the modem to work on Caldera, but no sound. And kondora couldn't deal
>with my video cards and I was just to lazy to mess with it. (I haven't
>given
>up on those, they are just on a back burner for now).
>I don't know why I love this OS so much. I can't put it into words. But
>all
>I can say is if I have to boot into windows for something, I can hardly
>wait
>to get back.
>The guis are nice, KDE in particular. I enjoy how fast the Mandrake
>updates
>come out and that we can test the betas. The community is really cool,
>especially the guys at Mandrake. Where else do the actual programmers take
>the time to answer calls for help?
>
>In summary, I chose Mandrake because it's the best d*mnit! :)
>
>-s
>
>On Wednesday 07 February 2001 11:42 pm, you wrote:
> > Knowing that this list belongs to Mandrake users. I want to know the
>bunch
> > of reasons why you picked up mandrake´s distribution.
> > I am about to make my decision about wich distribution, that is why I
> > joined the list.
> > I am newbie not only to mandrake distribution but to linux as well.
> > Of course I would like to know the downs of this distribution.
> > I know that sometimes picking a distribution is matter of preference as
>is
> > choosing the flavor of an ice cream on a sunny day.
> > So feel free to toss your opinions as silly or crazy as they might seem.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Chava.
> >
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