At Borders Books a week ago, I saw the boxed set of 7.2 for $29.95. The
books were on CD. I don't know if there is a boxed version with paper books
or not.
Dave
At 01:49 PM 11/22/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Just curious, what was the price on the boxed set with books?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jeff
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 11:03 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] Staples 7.2
>
>
>Mandrake was forced by Wal-Mart to get the boxed version of 7.2 out early
>(under threat of not putting it on shelves at all until after the new
>year). Wal-Mart had them by the cojones, and they did what just about
>anyone interested in keeping them would do: cried uncle.
>
>Dave
>
>At 10:48 AM 11/22/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, John Arkoulis wrote:
> >
> > > I found today in Vancouver at Staples Mandrake 7.2
> > > The box contains 7 CDs and it says that includes KDE 2 Beta. Is this the
> > > same version as Wall Mart was selling in the States???
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >The boxed release doiesn't seem like it will have the KDE2 final yet only
> >the d/l version, its a ruash job by mandrakesoft to get boxed pkgs out for
> >christmas- marketing tactics :( and even the Final is buggy I gave up on
> >it, its trying to copy a winblows interface too much in my opinion anyhow.
> >I hate it.
> > --
> >Chad Y.
> >Registered Linux User #195191
>
>Dave Sherman
>SoftServ Business Systems, Inc.
>
>"Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur."
Dave Sherman
SoftServ Business Systems, Inc.
"Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur."
