But people ARE going to download Mandrake (or use free" discs from
magazines, etc.) and if they have trouble they will summarily dismiss
Mandrake as being "no good" when a retail package might have or be just what
they need. You have to make the new version slick enough to protect people
Absolutely Jim. I entirely did away with my windows
partition after dual-booting for a few months. A few
weeks ago I re-installed wandows on a small drive
because I realized that I missed Half-Life more then I
hate wandows. Its sad I know.
I will be stuck with a perfunctory windows
On Tue, 30 May 2000, you wrote:
Just out of curiosity - IDE or SCSI? I don't remember seeing you specifing
anywhere (but I missed the begining of this thread).
charles,
it's an oemmer for sure and when i called panasonic they said it was too
new for the drivers to be on their website.
The reward comes when you get it working! I love the sense of
accomplishment...the when you are using the programs and they don't crash, I
sit here and smile all the time I am at the 'puterI am almost ready to
completely un-install windoze and run a linux only box here!
Jim
I downloaded
Anthony Huereca wrote:
P.S. IMHO any newbie who downloads their first install of
Linux instead of buying a documented package is truly nuts,
and is asking for big problems, but this has nothing to do
with the particular disto or version as it applies to them
all.
Heh, then I
AnthonyI'll bet you weren't really a total newbie 5 months
ago. I was using the term newbie to refer to folks who have
only used a Windows machine or a Mac previously. :-)
Alan
Anthony Huereca wrote:
P.S. IMHO any newbie who downloads their first install of
Linux instead of buying
Just out of curiosity - IDE or SCSI? I don't remember seeing you specifing
anywhere (but I missed the begining of this thread).
charles,
it's an oemmer for sure and when i called panasonic they said it was too
new for the drivers to be on their website. My source(computer123)
promised
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P.S. IMHO any newbie who downloads their first install of
Linux instead of buying a documented package is truly nuts,
and is asking for big problems, but this has nothing to do
with the particular disto or version as it applies to them
all.
Heh, then I guess I'm certifiably nuts : ) I
Yep, a definite clone. It used to be called X11Amp (play off of *Win*Amp) but
they changed the name for some reason.
Isn't XMMS a Winamp clone. I have it in 7.o (air)
ie. not unique to 7.1.
=michael=
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Computers are not intelligent. They only think they
charles,
it's an oemmer for sure and when i called panasonic they said it was too
new for the drivers to be on their website. My source(computer123)
promised manual, cables Adaptec cd and a 10 pack of recordable media
which they provided with the exception of the manual. Windows won't
recognize
Paulwith or without docs you can pre-order 7.1 at:
http://www.LLand.com/products/
Alan
Paul wrote:
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Michael wrote:
HOW CAN I BUY 7.1 WITH DOCS OR WITHOUT?
-michael-
BY WAITING UNTIL IT COMES OUT.
Sorry for shouting back.
Paul
Charles-
I have a cd rw but it's just an expensive 24 spin cd rom as far as i ,
idiot that i am, can use it. It's a panasonic 7585 and although i
followed the instructions
in the muo howto, i still am only able to read fron it but hey, my
windows 98 wont even recognize it!
=michael=
Denis HAVLIK [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
GRUB is default now. If nothing was changed recently, LILO gets configured
too, but not installed.
i confirm !!!
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MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com
In travel.--Chmouel
A more stable Netscape. OR Konqueror, KDE's amazingly versatile and
powerful new browser + I f it were there without having to compile, it
would indeed be cool!
=michael=
Isn't XMMS a Winamp clone. I have it in 7.o (air)
ie. not unique to 7.1.
=michael=
. This could be why
neither Linux or Windows
recognizes it as a CD-RW because it is not.
Charles
- Original Message -
From: "Michael" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1
Charle
In a message dated 5/27/00 9:54:47 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
P.S. IMHO any newbie who downloads their first install of
Linux instead of buying a documented package is truly nuts,
--- is truely nuts then...snicker...DLed my first (RH 5.1)managed
to install
That is my understanding about it being a
Winamp clone.
And it was on the 7.0 distro disk,
I didn't have to go looking for it on the web.
Bambi
Michael wrote:
Isn't XMMS a Winamp clone. I have it in 7.o (air)
ie. not unique to 7.1.
=michael=
I downloaded installed mandrake 7.0 on the
recommendation of a friend. I had a little bit of
experience working in a Unix environment (FreeBSD I
believe) but that was the extent of my familiarity. I
spent about two weeks reading hardware lists and
gathering information about IRQs, DMAs,
HOW CAN I BUY 7.1 WITH DOCS OR WITHOUT?
-michael-
y 26, 2000 11:57 PM
Subject: Re: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1
HOW CAN I BUY 7.1 WITH DOCS OR WITHOUT?
-michael-
accept you presuming to tell me what I believe.
Charles
- Original Message -
From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Fo
:~ After following the thread of several of the Discussion Post I thought I
:~should post some of the differances between version 7.0 and 7.1( beta 3 ).
:~ I installed 7.1 yesterday and have not had the chance to fully explore it
:~therefore the changes I am listing are the most obvious.
:~
" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1
Charles A Edwards wrote:
I Will make this statement regarding it. If you install via ISO
rather
than buying, and have never used Mandrake
before: 7.1 will be
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
P.S. IMHO any newbie who downloads their first install of
Linux instead of buying a documented package is truly nuts,
and is asking for big problems, but this has nothing to do
with the particular disto or version as it applies to them
all.
Alan
Believe it or not I
After following the thread of several of the Discussion Post I thought I
should post some of the differances between version 7.0 and 7.1( beta 3 ).
I installed 7.1 yesterday and have not had the chance to fully explore it
therefore the changes I am listing are the most obvious.
LILO is
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