Mandrake disappointment 1738
Questionable. If nothing else you have many decisions as to what distro you want when you get Linux...
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:22:35 -0700, Snit
Of course it is, if you get a download edition. Or a covermount. 10.1 Official is out on one of the magazines, and the community editon has been on a couple of others recently.
Where did you find that $50-60 editon without a media player? On the Linux Magazine DVD of Mandrake 10.1 Official, I find listed under Multimedia: Xmms and noatun, both of which are music players, and Xine and Mplayer, which are DVD-CD-vidoe file players - you might need to download a few codecs, or libdvdcss for DVD playing, but that's all. And once you set up urpmi with the mandrake repositories, you have access to all the Official distros software.
If you pay for a boxed set, it shouldn't cost you the earth, and it will come with a few nice extras, that's all, plus some manuals and support. You're basically paying for the support, the manuals and the extra, some of it proprietary, software, plus drivers like the nvidia drivers, all conveniently put together.
Don't get what you're driving at here. It's popular because it's good - excellent for newbies, especially.
Haven't seen the site lately, I got my boxed retail set elsewhere, slightly cheaper, and before that I used magazine covermount versions of 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0 and 10.1. You won't get Realplayer or Flash, or Java from a covermount, but they can be added quite easily afterwards.
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:26:26 -0700, Snit Is consistency such an absolute necessity? IMO, most apps these days on the main plaforms, ie Windows, Linux...
Sure it does. Mandrake as a company is trying to make a living. But they still give you the option of obtaining the distro for free. I'm sure someone will be able to point you to a download site.
-- Kier
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