[SLUG] Re: Newbie alert and Community Net cafe

2009-11-14 Thread Mike Andy
Thanks for the info Patrick, It's the first time i've heard of a distro asking for a donation too, though $10 really isn't that much I had mixed feelings about the approach too. That said, I guess it's a good way to get some contribution from people, I always intend on giving donations to the proje

[SLUG] Re: Newbie alert and Community Net cafe

2009-11-14 Thread John Nielsen
Hi Guyz Thanks for the feedback...yes I will be setting up printing and I downloaded a copy of mint from TAFE...I did as well look at E Live as it was in the same article that I read in APC Mag...I'll be starting my try outs later in the week. No I've yet to do research on the hardware and if it'l

Re: [SLUG] Re: Newbie alert and Community Net cafe

2009-11-13 Thread elliott-brennan
I was curious about Mike's comment that his friend had to pay to download the elive distro so had a look at the site: http://www.elivecd.org/Download/Stable It states the following: *** Why request a donation ? Elive is free and made with pleasure for yo

[SLUG] Re: Newbie alert and Community Net cafe

2009-11-13 Thread elliott-brennan
Hi John, Linuxmint is dead simple. All the additional bits and pieces are installed at, well, install. I think all the major 'nix's are easy to use and install, it's really just multimedia and other bits that some people have trouble with. Mint makes this a non-issue, as do Mepis and others (names

[SLUG] Re: Newbie

2002-04-16 Thread Angus Lees
At 16 Apr 2002 09:42:50 +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: > According to the notes recently on slug wine does not support directx so > it probably will not support games very well. wine does directx fine (can even use DGA). it does not do direct3d (but i think the (commercial/kind-of-proprietry/interestin