Pardon me if I am sounding a bit paranoid but it has been a very long weekend testing various alternatives to RedHat. There is a lot that I like about Mandrake but have found some things infuriating. I downloaded the three iso images and did not register. I wanted to see if our organization wanted to further investigate the Mandrake route before investing.
I've had grief installing various packages as it looked for CD4 out the three CD's. When attempting to update, I could not connect and, upon further investigation, found that this was due to typographical errors in the update source paths from the Mandrake installation. I've finally gotten everything I need but it was a maddening process of figuring out how to use the source configurator and then downloading everything that was supposedly on CD4 from the ftp sites. I know that the commercial packages are not available without paid membership with Mandrake but kernel documentation and freeswan and tripwire are certainly no commercial (well at least the gpl'd tripwire). What is this fourth CD? Is there some intentional crippling for those who have not purchased a membership beyond the commercial software / license limitations? Thanks - John -- Open Source Development Corporation Financially Sustainable open source development http://www.opensourcedevelopmentcorp.com
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