Hey, I am a bit peeved. When mandrake 7.2 came out, I went and
downloaded the ISOs. I got DSL and CDburner so it was easy.
Well, being a newbie, I wanted to get a manual or something, and
heard that if you buy a distro, it comes with extra CDs of apps and
stuff, and of course a manual. So I wanted support and all these things.
Well I went to Wal-mart and bought Mandrake 7.2 Complete Retail
box version since it had 4 CDs and manual.
I take home and install. Then I started having a few quirks and problems,
of course I did mandrake update to update the prerelease version of
kde to final 2.0 version, and other stufff.
Well, still had a few quirks. I missed my Webmin tool from 7.1 and
I missed a few networking tools from 7.1 but alas they were no where
to be found on the walmart distro. I was quite perturbed and disheartened.
Finally late last night I went and viewed my downloaded ISOs of
7.2, and FOUND WEBMIN and MORE STUFF on the downloaded version!!
So, since my walmart distro was not quite right, I took a chance and
installed afresh the downloaded 7.2. NO MORE prerelease kde!!!
I had hardly any updates necessary!! I got more networking stuff, everything
seems to be running better!! The downloaded version is MUCH better.
I am definitely PEEVED that I spent $$ for the walmart version and would
like to know if there is a way to contact macmillan since I think they are
misleading people about the retail box version!!
I am just an inquiring "newbie" mind, saying my rant.
susan
