Thats because Macmillian is only a reseller.
Macmillian takes mandrake and puts in their logo and stuff and sells it as
6.5....
this is why some tend to buy the lMacmillian instead of the mandrake due to the
way they label the boxes in stores and computer magazine's...
I almost did the same thing until a friend pointed to me the fine print which
says Macmillian....
Harold
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Riley March wrote:
> I fell for it myself. I was under the impression that the Macmillan Software
> when I bought it was the full-blown package of Mandrake. I now see on
> Mandrakes home page they are making sure those of us that did buy it know
> that they are not responsible for the tech support of it. I have now
> installed Mandrake 7.0 and love it. In doing that it did take care of a
> video card glitch I had with the Macmillan Linux 6.0. It didn't want to run
> in a high res, but Mandrake 7.0 worked like a charm.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Alfrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 10:39 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Re: Caution: Macmillan/Mandrake
>
> I posted the following message on the list several days ago and also sent
> same
> to Linuxcare (the support service for the Macmillan Software version of
> Mandrake). I've gotten no response from Linuxcare except the
> message-received
> acknowledgement. In the meantime, I've installed RedHat 5.2, RedHat 6.1,
> Turbolinux 6.0 and various Caldera distros on the same partition with no
> problem. I would have tried a commercial version of Mandrake if I could
> find
> one in the stores. I would recommend caution to those considering buying the
> Macmillan Software versions of Mandrake. In my opinion, the Macmillan
> distro
> is bad advertising for the full-blown Mandrake package!
>
> Prior posting/message to Linuxcare follows:
>
> > Description:
> > System:
> > Pentium II, 400 MHz, 256 MB on Intel 440 BX motherboard, two scsi 9
> > GB drives
> > Dual-boot Win98 and three other ext2 partitions, using Boot Magic
> > Video chip = Cirrus Logic 5480 PCI on motherboard, 2 MB RAM
> > scsi controller = ncr53C875 on motherboard
> >
> > Currently running Caldera 2.3/KDE 1.1.2 on second drive.
> >
> > Problem:
> > Purchased "Deluxe Linux O/S 6.5" (from Fry's Elec.). Installation
> > goes fine, linux runs well in run level 3. X appears broken. For
> example, the
> > Mandrake login graphic window, each component of which is assembled from
> > different layers, has portions cut up and shifted. Color block background
> for
> > one window may be offset to the side, frame for a text window may be
> shifted
> > down, text for two buttons may be overlapped, text for one window may be
> > covered by the shifted color background from another button. Of course,
> since
> > kde is built on X, it is an even bigger mess. For example, drag a window
> and it
> > leaves a trail of pieces of itself behind.
> > This is not an XF86Setup problem. Monitor/video card is working fine (16
> bpp,
> > 1024x768), I know my sync rates!! As a sanity check, I installed
> > Red Hat 5.2 from an old VA Research disk circa very early 1999 which has
> > virtually the same install package and it installs with no problem. Then
> > upgraded it with the "6.5" disk and X is now a mess again.
> > Incidentally, I had the exact same problem with a virtually
> > identical Mandrake/Macmillan disk from a book "GNU C++ For Linux".
> > What gives?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
> >
>
> --
> Tony Alfrey
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "I'd rather be sailing"
