Anne, Thanks for your message.
Yes, I had set up urmp with some additional sources, I am pretty sure including a plf source. However I still found it difficult to browse for software. What I found myself wanting, no doubt from my past experiences with other OS's, were lists of software by type with easy to understand explainations of what they did. I found this quite dificult. I will check out urpmi.org/easyurpmi I am not completly giving up on linux. I am however probably switching my primary OS to win xp. I will keep the dual boot and continue to play around with linux when I have the time. Perhpase I will switch back sometime. Thanks again! PS: does the rmp software depository at the mandrake club offer something important over that of other sources, such as ones I might find at easyurpmi? Perhpase just beyond MORE software? Such as easier browsing, better catagorization etc? Gideon On Saturday 09 October 2004 01:37 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 09 Oct 2004 17:43, g2 wrote: > > I can definitely reccomend Mandrake to people switching who want to do > > basic computer functions and not install allot of new software and change > > things around. Installation was easy and the system and software were > > very usable. > > As I'm sure you realise, linux is not only good for basic needs. However, > the problems you have met spring largely from having pre-conceived ideas > (we all have them if we have used a different OS) and having to learn new > ways of doing things, as well as being adventurous in trying things out. > Sometimes things get broken that way ;-) There's usually plenty of help in > sorting them, but, of course, it takes time. > > > Unfortunately I never tried the mandrake club service. I understand that > > might have helped allot in providing ready made rmps of a lot of > > software. I did want to try it but was just never ready to spend the > > money on a six month subscription. I wish they offered a very short > > trial subscription so that one could see its usefullness. I certainly > > would have paid $5 for instance to use it for a day or a few days in > > order to try it out. > > I wonder if you had sources set up for additional programs? There are many > more available in rpms for Mandrake than those on the cds. If you are > interested in looking further, you might like to try urpmi.org/easyurpmi to > get additional souces - in particular plf, which is a repository for apps > that cannot be included in the distro for licensing issues. There are > other useful ones, too, and I'm sure people will give you urls for them if > you want them. > > > PS: just out of curiosity, is there a way to have both mandrake and > > windows running at the same time on a single processor? I realize that > > this would greatly affect system resources, if it is even possible, but I > > was just wondering. I currently have a dual boot setup. > > You can run much of windows software, using wine, win4lin or vmware, but > they will only work if you have the hardware working under linux. > > Good luck! > > Anne
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