Re: [newbie] Review of Mandrake 6.0
Anyone know who has the box set in south Florida ? jsm Art Rowe wrote: I read the review earlier and thought it very good. I just saw this boxed Mandrake set at Costco for $29.99 Canadian. You can't hardly get an update OS disk from Microsoft for that kind of money. This should lure a number of people who have never really heard of Linux to try it out. I am a Newbie but find Mandrake 6.0 easy to install and I downloaded most of the updates from mirror sites without any trouble. The three electronic books in the box are not recent but should have the basic stuff. I think I read the Sam's book from the local library and thought it was the most helpful one I had come across as a beginner. Art - Original Message - From: Ripcrd6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 10:30 AM Subject: [newbie] Review of Mandrake 6.0 (URL) Just read a review of Mandrake 6.0 that is being distributed by Macmillan Publishing over at http://www.cpureview.com/rev_mndk6_a.html . You guys might enjoy the read. Mandrake gets high marks. .. I recommend everyone to buy the boxed edition when possible to support your favorite Distro. Thanks for all the great support on this list!! Brian
RE: [newbie] Review of Mandrake 6.0
Try www.linux-center.org (I think) and look for a LUG (Linux User Group) in your area. Ty C. Mixon ICQ # 26147713 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of jsm Sent: July 07, 1999 1:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Review of Mandrake 6.0 Anyone know who has the box set in south Florida ? jsm Art Rowe wrote: I read the review earlier and thought it very good. I just saw this boxed Mandrake set at Costco for $29.99 Canadian. You can't hardly get an update OS disk from Microsoft for that kind of money. This should lure a number of people who have never really heard of Linux to try it out. I am a Newbie but find Mandrake 6.0 easy to install and I downloaded most of the updates from mirror sites without any trouble. The three electronic books in the box are not recent but should have the basic stuff. I think I read the Sam's book from the local library and thought it was the most helpful one I had come across as a beginner. Art - Original Message - From: Ripcrd6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 10:30 AM Subject: [newbie] Review of Mandrake 6.0 (URL) Just read a review of Mandrake 6.0 that is being distributed by Macmillan Publishing over at http://www.cpureview.com/rev_mndk6_a.html . You guys might enjoy the read. Mandrake gets high marks. .. I recommend everyone to buy the boxed edition when possible to support your favorite Distro. Thanks for all the great support on this list!! Brian
Re: [newbie] Review of Mandrake 6.0
On Wed, 07 Jul 1999, you wrote: Anyone know who has the box set in south Florida ? jsm Art Rowe wrote: I read the review earlier and thought it very good. I just saw this boxed Mandrake set at Costco for $29.99 Canadian. You can't hardly get an update OS disk from Microsoft for that kind of money. This should lure a number of people who have never really heard of Linux to try it out. I am a Newbie but find Mandrake 6.0 easy to install and I downloaded most of the updates from mirror sites without any trouble. The three electronic books in the box are not recent but should have the basic stuff. I think I read the Sam's book from the local library and thought it was the most helpful one I had come across as a beginner. Art - Original Message - From: Ripcrd6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 10:30 AM Subject: [newbie] Review of Mandrake 6.0 (URL) Just read a review of Mandrake 6.0 that is being distributed by Macmillan Publishing over at http://www.cpureview.com/rev_mndk6_a.html . You guys might enjoy the read. Mandrake gets high marks. .. I recommend everyone to buy the boxed edition when possible to support your favorite Distro. Thanks for all the great support on this list!! Brian Sams Club sells it where I live. The best that I can tell from looking at it is it only has 1 cd(gpl version?) and the included book. Better choice would be to get the powerpack with the full set of cd's(5). -- Check out and support the next generation of cpu for the people: http://f-cpu.tux.org/
!!RE: [newbie] Review of Mandrake 6.0
Also, Circadian was very prompt in sending out the boxed set. see: http://www.ccsoft.cc/ (yes, the .cc is correct :) Bill -Original Message- From: hevnsnt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 1:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Review of Mandrake 6.0 try ebay or amazon.. -Bill On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, jsm wrote: Anyone know who has the box set in south Florida ? jsm Art Rowe wrote: I read the review earlier and thought it very good. I just saw this boxed Mandrake set at Costco for $29.99 Canadian. You can't hardly get an update OS disk from Microsoft for that kind of money. This should lure a number of people who have never really heard of Linux to try it out. I am a Newbie but find Mandrake 6.0 easy to install and I downloaded most of the updates from mirror sites without any trouble. The three electronic books in the box are not recent but should have the basic stuff. I think I read the Sam's book from the local library and thought it was the most helpful one I had come across as a beginner. Art - Original Message - From: Ripcrd6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 10:30 AM Subject: [newbie] Review of Mandrake 6.0 (URL) Just read a review of Mandrake 6.0 that is being distributed by Macmillan Publishing over at http://www.cpureview.com/rev_mndk6_a.html . You guys might enjoy the read. Mandrake gets high marks. .. I recommend everyone to buy the boxed edition when possible to support your favorite Distro. Thanks for all the great support on this list!! Brian
Re: [newbie] Review of Mandrake 6.0
jsm, there are several places on the net to buy the boxed edition. I have not seen it in stores local to me. The place that came with recommendations from my LUG is www.linuxmall.com Your mileage may vary. You can also try www.lsl.com , www.linux-central.com , and there are several others listed at www.linux-mandrake.com under the section: where to obtain Linux Mandrake. From: Ty C. Mixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try www.linux-center.org (I think) and look for a LUG (Linux User Group) in your area. Ty C. Mixon ICQ # 26147713 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone know who has the box set in south Florida ? jsm Art Rowe wrote: I read the review earlier and thought it very good. I just saw this boxed Mandrake set at Costco for $29.99 Canadian. You can't hardly get an update OS disk from Microsoft for that kind of money. This should lure a number of snip,snip Art - Original Message - From: Ripcrd6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. I recommend everyone to buy the boxed edition when possible to support your favorite Distro. Thanks for all the great support on this list!! Brian
Re: [newbie] Review of Mandrake 6.0
I've run into a glitch on my Mandrake Linux system, and I'm wondering if it's a DNS problem or just Netscape wierdness. I've got a standard dialup server using diald to trigger the modem. When I search for an outside URL using Netscape on RH52, the modem will dial, the internet connection will come up, the address will resolve, and the page loads. I have one computer with Mandrake 6 installed. Typing in an outside URL will trigger the modem and cause the internet connection to come up, Netscape will list connect on the info line, but the page won't load. Other machines on the network can load pages at this point, but Netscape will have to time out (3 to 10 minutes), then entering a URL will work, and everything will be fine after that. The initial connection doesn't seem to work. If I fire up this machine with the dialup already functional, NS will work as expected. It's just that initial connection seems to get lost. I can short circuit this by firing up a second copy of NS, click OK on the box that warns "duplicate copy, no cache", and I can browse as expected. Is this a DNS prob? I turned off DNS (I think) and am using the hosts file. I set everything up as I would in RH52. Is this just an NS problem? Should I go to the libc5 version of NS?
Re: [newbie] Review of Mandrake 6.0 (URL)
At 03:43 PM 7/6/99 -0500, you wrote: I think you misunderstood my post. If Mandrake makes no $, fine, it's legal, but if we don't support the developers of our Distro of choice then they may disappear. If you buy the book and no support goes to Mandrake or RH or whoever, at the least it grows the group of users of a great distro. If you are _able_ then buy the boxed set of your _favorite_ distro as a way to support them. Just as important, contribute to discussions on Usenet, maillists like this one, web-based help sites and documentation projects. Let me second this as an *IMPORTANT* concept. I personally own two boxed Mandrakes, and both were purchased *AFTER* I had working copies of the ISO in my office. And I'll readily burn a copy for people around town who only want to try it or can't afford the price. But, given some of the ridiculous license fees I pay Microsoft/Oracle/Sun and some others just to stay in business, paying the minor cost of a boxed Linux distribution is morally obligatory to me. (Particularly considering the main servers in our office are Mandrake boxes.) Like he says, if you're *able* to purchase a boxed set, show your support. And if you're not, then that's OK. Take what you need and help out the next guy when you can. But please contribute *something*. MB -- Michael R. Batchelor Industrial Informatics Instrumentation, Inc.
Re: [newbie] Review of Mandrake 6.0
I read the review earlier and thought it very good. I just saw this boxed Mandrake set at Costco for $29.99 Canadian. You can't hardly get an update OS disk from Microsoft for that kind of money. This should lure a number of people who have never really heard of Linux to try it out. I am a Newbie but find Mandrake 6.0 easy to install and I downloaded most of the updates from mirror sites without any trouble. The three electronic books in the box are not recent but should have the basic stuff. I think I read the Sam's book from the local library and thought it was the most helpful one I had come across as a beginner. Art - Original Message - From: Ripcrd6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 10:30 AM Subject: [newbie] Review of Mandrake 6.0 (URL) Just read a review of Mandrake 6.0 that is being distributed by Macmillan Publishing over at http://www.cpureview.com/rev_mndk6_a.html . You guys might enjoy the read. Mandrake gets high marks. .. I recommend everyone to buy the boxed edition when possible to support your favorite Distro. Thanks for all the great support on this list!! Brian
