On Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 20:49, Ricardo Rodriguez wrote: > Thank you all for your answers YankDownUnder I really appreciate the > time you took to share your experience. > > I think I may give Mandriva the chance. While sending this e-mail > I'm currently installing 8.2 (which I got from a magazine) to play > with it for a bit. > That's so out of date it's in a different world. It may let you get back a little into the feel for linux, but believe me it has very little in common with the modern distro.
> When will 2006LE be released? > If I decide to go ahead and get 2005 without becomming a member, do I > get some kind of discount for 2006? If I decide to work on a 2005 -> > 2006 scenario, should I go for an "upgrade" or installing from > scratch? Buying a box, I'll get some kind of nicely printed > documentation (I guess) which I think won't be available becomming a > member, right? > Wrong. There is some printed documentation, still, I believe, but all the documentation is on disk. You'll miss nothing, other than a pack of paper to print out bits that you want to keep handy. BTW, it's appreciated if you bottom-post, to make reading easier, and snip unnecessary quoting to help those with limited bandwidth. You'll find more about these issues on http://mandriva.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrivaMailingListEtiquette. a page in our community TWiki. The link in my sig below will take you to the Home Page. Browse around. There's lots there that will help you. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Mandriva hints & tips: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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