Subject: Re: Newbie
From: Jim Gribbin (jgribbin@alaska.net)
Date: Fri Jan 18 2002 - 02:02:59 AKST
I figured it was something along those lines. About the only commercial
distribution sets I count on being out there are my RedHat stuff and
Stan's Suse. Other than that it is usually installs with downloaded
sets.
Jim
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 10:58, civileme wrote:
>
> On Thursday 17 January 2002 06:33 am, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> > I don't know. The only Mandrake stuff I know of out there regularly is
> > the download version.
> >
> > We really should try and keep this on the list. Usually 'reply-all'
> > instead of just 'reply' will accomplish this.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 21:43, MourgMan@aol.com wrote:
> > > I'd like to try a diffrent distro on my laptop. Think anyone will have
> > > Mandrake Gamming Edition?
>
>
> Mandrake Gaming is a 3-cd set with The Sims (one CD), the system (One CD),
> and Commercial apps CD from Standard edition. Unlike the regular fodder,
> this one has a CD Serial number, because it is distributing licensed,
> proprietary games.
>
> You can get the same effect, without the Sims, by installing Mandrake 8.1 and
> downloading and compiling the source for WineX from transgaming. The binary
> though is not a free distribution, not even free as in beer.
>
> Civileme
>
>
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