Brian....You're very welcome. MacMillan vs. Mandrake!? Boy,
that depends on a lot of different factors. If monitarily
supporting the Mandrake folks who put a lot of time, money and
effort into the Mandrake distribution is important to you then
the obvious answer would be to buy the mandrake power-pack. If
you want to do this, Circadian Software seems to have the best
price and availability:
http://www.ccsoft.cc/index.html
If immediate availability is important, then going out to one of
the many retail chains (Best Buy, Costco, Sam's Club,
Walmart...etc.) and picking up a MacMillan version may be the
best answer for you, but beware. There are many older versions
of MacMillan's "Complete Linux" out there on the retail shelves
and I don't know if there are any containing the newest release,
version 7.0.2 as of yet.
Finally if cost is a big factor then a GPL disc from one of the
on-line Linux stores may be for you, but beware that what you
get is simply a bootable installation disc (the same as you
would if you downloaded the Mandrake 7.0.2 iso image from the
web and burned your own cd), so getting a package with a book or
two and some discs with extra documentation and software may be
a better answer for the first timer. Below are some more urls
to check out for all three ways to go that I've outlined above:
http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart
http://www.linuxcentral.com/
http://www.LinuxMall.com/
http://www.lsl.com/
One thing to be careful of is that there have been two versions
of the version 7 release. 7.0 and 7.0.2 Be sure you get 7.0.2
Alan
Brian Popp wrote:
>
> Alan - I appreciate your note and paln to purchase
> Linux. Would you recommend the MacMillan version or
> Mandrake?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
>
> --- Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Brian....I can't compare Mandrake to Corel as I've
> > never even
> > seen Corel. I have read quite a few negative
> > comments about
> > Corel, but can't substantiate them personally. I'm
> > not sure
> > what version of Mandrake you're referring to, but
> > since my
> > answers to your questions would apply to any
> > version, that won't
> > be a problem. You can indeed install Mandrake so
> > that you will
> > be able to choose at boot time whether your computer
> > boots up on
> > either Mandrake or Windows95. Pretty much any
> > version of Linux
> > is more reliable than Windows and I've been running
> > Linux-Mandrake (5.2, 5.3, 6.0, 6.1 & 7.0) instead of
> > Windows for
> > a year now and would never consider going back to
> > Windows. I
> > rarely ever boot my Windows98 partition any more.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> > Brian Popp wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello -
> > > Linux is new to me and I'd like to know how this
> > > version (Mandrake) compares to Corel. Can I
> > install
> > > this version so that I can run either Windows95 or
> > > Linux? Most of all, is it a reliable replacement
> > for
> > > Windows? And is Netscape used for the internet?
> > > Thank you much, Brian
> > >
> > > __________________________________________________
> > > Do You Yahoo!?
> > > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
> > > http://im.yahoo.com
> >
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
> http://im.yahoo.com
