[newbie] pleased with Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-12 Thread sobe
Hi all I started with mandrake 7.1 and said to myself "Wow Linux has come a long way since my first futile attempts of working with Linux back in 96 The next week 7.2 was released, chomping at the bit i waited a whole week to download the latest... Well it was well worth it. Previous

Re: [newbie] pleased with Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-12 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 17:33:28 -0700, you wrote: Did you DL using DSL? I tried @ 56k, but it would require 32 plus hours per file (/iso/...). -Cmo LOL...a couple months ago, I downloaded 7.1...it took 52 hours. Just for ha has, I started to download it when I got my cable modem. According to the

Re: [newbie] pleased with Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-12 Thread mdknewbie-g
Charles wrote: Did you DL using DSL? I tried @ 56k, but it would require 32 plus hours per file (/iso/...). -Cmo sobe wrote: [snip] The next week 7.2 was released, chomping at the bit i waited a [whole week to download the latest... [snip] Why mess with trying to DL at snail

Re: [newbie] pleased with Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-12 Thread sobe
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 17:33:28 -0700, you wrote: Did you DL using DSL? I tried @ 56k, but it would require 32 plus hours per file (/iso/...). -Cmo LOL...a couple months ago, I downloaded 7.1...it took 52 hours. Just for ha has, I started to download it when I got my cable modem. According to

RE: [newbie] pleased with Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-12 Thread Ross Levis
I am in the process of downloading 7.2 on a 33.6k modem overnight. It takes about 8 days. I don't need it tomorrow so no need to spend money. On an unrelated subject, is there some reason why, when replying to messages on this maillist, that it replies to the sender rather than the list? (ie)