Hi jMon54

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What is the Deal with distros like Mandrake or Suse or Red Hat? I find it very hard to download their ISO images. With Knoppix 3.6, it was so easy! I downloaded Mandrake 3 different times, 3 CDs each. And I have yet to get past the first two minutes of the install program on two different computers.
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You haven't really given much there to comment on. Lots of people dload all those things quite regularly.

What actually happened ?. Tjere wasen't a major thunder storm on at the time by chance ?, was there

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Has Knoppix spoiled me?
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Probably (grin)




eon ...

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... like so many of the big distros is a commercial venture, and their community
release has several unfortunate limitations.
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There's the point, you get what you pay for, so to speak. It seems the main distros __use__ their community releases as a testing ground for the main product. But they have been a bit ___to___ lacks though, in some regards, over the last year. Even for a testing release, in my opinion.

Hope it dosen't become a directional trend in that regard. In that, MS should be allowed to remain "the holders of the mantle" for buggy OS releases, not Linux


jm