Dear Civilme and All, Thank you for your info and comments about 8.1. It sounds like a great distro. I have not decided if I am going to get the Powerpack or Prosuite. What is the difference between the two? Thanks alot.
Sincerely, Marcia On Saturday 29 September 2001 15:46, civileme wrote: > On Saturday 29 September 2001 19:45, Marcia wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > For those of you who are using 8.1 is it really an improvement over 8? > > The printing for Epson did not work in 8. Is that working with 8.1? > > > > I see that their is a nice offer from Linux Mandrake website for a 8.1 > > 3CD set. The powerpack will have 7 CD's. It is expensive, I think, but if > > it is truly worth it I would probably wait and get it since I have not > > ever bought a powerpack before. Are the powerpack's truly better than > > just getting the 3CD set for example? > > > > I will appreciate any feedback. Thank you. > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Marcia > > Marcia, > > The printing in 8.1 is finally what it should be. You can use CUPS, or > LPRng, or PDQ, and if you use PDQ, an icon goes onto your desktop to dump > jobs if you have a printer jam. > > Power Pack has > > 3 CDs of Free Software > 2 CDs of Commercial Software all set to try before you buy, and some > free(as in beer) software like StarOffice and NVidia Drivers (yes, > precompiled) on those CDs. XBasic is there in case you want to try your > hand at programming with a drag'n'drop set of GUI widgets, too. > 2 CDs of Source Code > > Standard Pack has > > 2 CDs of Free Software > 1 CD of commercial code including SO and NVidia Drivers > > Download Pack has > 3 CDs of Free software > > Not all free software made it to the free software disks--lack of room and > time as we froze that a little earlier than the commercial CDs, so a few > free software programs like the excellent XBasic Program Development System > were dropped onto the commercial CDs rather than being left out of the > distro. > > If you want to do time billing and print invoices and do it from several > computers, and have an option to run a webstore and have its sales journal > posting immediately to your general ledger, then you need the Prosuite. > > One option is to order the Prosuite DVD if you have a DVD drive and receive > the main 2 CDs for free right away. The DVD will have to be pressed so our > robot won't do that one--regular shipments only. With the Prosuite DVD you > have all 9 CDs in one place. I thnk that is a little cheaper than the > power pack. > > Civileme
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