I've installed from a Mandrake distro on several systems. It's based on
RedHat but makes the installation and management of the system a lot
easier. I was impressed that when I installed it on a box that had both
Win 95 and Win2k, it used something called "grub" over Lilo to setup a
multi-boot system that actually worked! That's new in my experience. In
the past I've always had to play games to get Win/NT to play nice with
Linux. Microsoft takes a search and destroy approach to multi-boot
systems.
-Alex
Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster!
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it
said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." - Anonymous
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote:
> true - however have you seen this distro package? i don't think that
> theres much of a manual in there.....in any event - what are they
> (users) going to say when they buy it...install it...wipe thier windows
> drive......and then complain to ppl like us ( LUGs ). that often leaves
> a bad taste in ppl's mouths.....then you get coments like "linux
> sux...it destroyed my whole harddrive" linux was and is a programmers
> os..its moving toward the desktop...but i have a feeling that distros
> like debian are going to start getting a lot more popular with the "old
> school" linux users....see where i'm going with this?
>
> thanks for the poke.....get my boilers rolling :-)
>
> ~kurth
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote:
> >
> >
> > Heh - Just a sign of mainstreaming. A good thing, eh? What we should now
> > hope for is Star Office or a Quake for Linux appearing onthe shelves next
> > to the Linux releases!
> >
> > And the money, just like publishing a book ( the manual ). these guys
> > gotta make a buck somewhere, and selling an informative starter manual
> > with a disk included is a decent way to do things. Looked at the manual
> > that comes with a Windows CD? Might as well be a single sheet photocopy of
> > the license number :)
> >
> > Can't resist to poke you once in a while, Kurth!
> >
> >
> >
> >> i sure you all know of all know of wall mart. who dosen't. i saw
> >> something on slash dot
> >> (http://www.slashdot.org/features/00/11/02/2324224.shtml) that prompted
> >> meto take a trip to my local wal-mart. sure enough there was mandrake
> >> 7.2 sitting on the shelf next to winME and MS Plus. what is going on
> >> here? is linux going the same way as windows? brainless users who just
> >> know "ok" and "cancel" (keep your snide remarks to yourself about my
> >> goof up :-))
> >>
> >> on the other side of this tho....can we talk to macmillian and maybe get
> >> the ok to put some sort of propaganda in or on the packages? so that
> >> the user (should they buy it) can have some sort of support?
> >>
> >> one last thing....i don't mind buying the latest redhack for 99
> >> bucks......it all goes to redhat.....that mandrake goes for 50...isn't
> >> linux suppoused to be free or next to nothing? how much of that 50 goes
> >> back to mandrake? i'd beintrested to know.
> >>
> >> ~kurth
> >>
> >
>
>
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