heck, in MY book, that's what happens when you support WAL-MART
----- Original Message -----
From: "TimD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] bone to pick with Macmillan
> I think you all need to stop bitchen.
> This is Linux. Not Windows. Overcome, adapt and improvise.
>
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>
> On Wednesday 15 November 2000 08:26, you wrote:
> > 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
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