On Saturday 18 Feb 2006 20:41, h k ball wrote: > ET said: > > the real question (to me) is how would a newbie ever find this list > anymore? > > can anyone point me to a link that you can follow from any Mand-ex start > or first page (like the one that comes up in a browser when you first > start the browser or mandriva.com or mandrivalinux.org(etc)) that would > link to a signup or other link leading you here? all I have found in the > past was a link saying 'you better' sign up for the mandrivaexpert paid > services. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------------------- > ... I'm a very new newbie (on the list since last March) ... listening > in on this discussion, decided to join the Expert list to see what it looks > like ... took me an hour and a half !!! ... absolutely no luck starting at > mandriva, finally looked at some old emails, found the WIKI link, that did > the trick ... but now I see what you guys have been talking about, Mandriva > is totally unfriendly to unpayed-for lists !!! > > ... I have played around with SUSE and Kubuntu, still like Mandriva alot > more, but mandriva is truly shooting themselves in the foot running you > guys off like this .... > > ... Expert list is excellent though, lot of good stuff so far that I > more-or-less understand ... > There is a link to expert and newbie at :-
http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/en/community/users/newsgroups which is in the users corner of the community section. But it is not as prominent as some would like ( me included) -- Regards Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
