[Hudlug] Obtaining Discs

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 11 May 2003 4:18 pm, Tom Croft wrote:
> Hello.  I'm an art student in Todmorden, a small town on the other
> side of Halifax.  I'm also a Debian user, but my brother's
> defenestrating, do I thought maybe I'll migrate to something a little
> easier (Debian seems to lose the plot when you upgrade it).
>
> What would be the best distro?  Is Mandrake's future still uncertain?
> Is Red Hat[tm] good for desktops (it seems to be regarded as a server
> OS)?  Is SuSE worth considering (seems to be harder to get CDs)?
>
I am a very happy Mandrake user.  It is true that they are financially=20
restructuring, but there is no need at this time to worry about their=20
viability.  The courts put in a sort of administrator to make sure that t=
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get the restructuring right, and their is every reason to believe that th=
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will survive.

One very good reason for choosing Mandrake is that there are very active=20
member-to-member support mailing lists as well as the support offered by=20
MandrakeSoft.  Club membership is also to be recommended, but not essenti=
al. =20
Recently we have set up a TWiki web to gather useful FAQs.  One page I am=
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actively involved in is building a sorted list of useful urls.

> Where do I get CDs from? =20

If you have broadband they are easily downloadable.  The first 3 cds are=20
freely downloadable, I understand, and extra packages available from=20
Mandrake's website and zarb.plf.org.  Mdk 9.1 is not yet on the shelves, =
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is downloadable.  Many have had troublefree installs, but I get the=20
impression that older or more exotic hardware could be troublesome.  9.0 =
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pretty good, assuming that you use the download facility to get all the f=
ixes=20
and security updates (you can do it in batches if you don't have broadban=
d). =20
If you are happy to stick with 8.2, which included kde2, not 3, you can h=
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my set of original discs.

If you would like me to copy 9.0 discs, please contact me offlist and we =
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arrange something.  I could also duplicate a Knoppix disk.

Anne
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