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  4. Really angry at Mandriva

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by bergamote

    In reality it's x% donation to GNU Linux, and (100-x)% for a commercial product with all the bells and whistles attached!

    I don't agree. Aren't some Mandriva employees contributing to free software? See for instance linuxprinting.org

    Mandriva killed that notion in the way that is advertises the club benefits, and the fact that you sign up to a commercial contract for a fixed period of time.

    Here you have a point. I really think Mandriva should stop advertising the club benefits.

    IMHO there's only one benefit: the early access to the ISOs. Besides I'm sure most club members didn't join to gain these so called benefits.

    Mandriva would be better off simply saying "download the distro and if you like it join our club --or our developpers/testers tream-- to show your appreciation".

  5. Gaël Duval's own Mandriva Linux related FAQ

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    what interested me is not what he actually said but rather that he did say something.

    There were times when I just wondered if anyone was on board or if mandrake ship was drifting no one knows where. That was especially true when users' posts on the official forums could be left unanswered for weeks. -- Fortunately it's no longer the case as they have hired some people who do make a difference.

  6. Really angry at Mandriva

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    Okay. Now that I have 2006 installed, I must say it's fantastic. [...]

    I just wish that someone with a clue ran the store.

    Glad that you got the distro at last and enjoy it.

    I think you could still let Mandriva people know that the way they treat their customer is not right. We've been hearing bad things about the store for so long -- it's high time they fix it.

    you have to look at club membership more as a donation to the GNU/linux community, then you won't feel so bad about poor service.

     

    I agree. I too see club membership as a way to contribute -- the only way for me actually as I don't know anything about coding or testing.

    But a store is just.... a store and the least it can do is deliver what customers pay for.

  10. Tomorrow is the day?

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    hello,

    Thursday was definitely not the day, the download was far too slow! I just gave up and resumed on Saturday, which was good as I could download the 4 CDs in 3 hours.

    So far 2006 is just fine.

    BTW I'm happy they got rid of the ugly scary pinguin.

  12. Modem Installation

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by bergamote

    and how can I have Internet on My Mandrake ???

    try to connect to the internet

    either from a terminal (as root) type startadsl (you can stop the internet with stopadsl )

    or from the mdk control center since your're using mdk 10.1 OE.

     

    if it doesn't work, run first eagleconfig in a terminal as root.

  13. ADSL USB Sagem Fast 800 modem not working

    in Hardware

    Posted

    I'll try to help though I'm not an expert.

    The fact is that with mdk 10.1 OE, I didn't have to do much. I used the MCC , the modem was detected and the driver installed

    then I ran eagleconfig in a terminal and answered all the questions about the ISP and my login and password. I also had to edit the file etc/resolv.conf

    With previous versions of mdk I had to do the configuration in a terminal.

    First , can you tell us which modem you have? Mine is 800 E2L. I undersatnd there are newer models.

  15. Installation confusion: help me out here?

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    I went to Cd image recorder, and it just gives me an error. Maybe its because my cd's only go up to 700MB and the .iso files exeed those by atleast 9-11mb..

    Hi, I had a similar problem when I installed mdk 10.1 OE a few days ago.

    I dowloaded the iso images on my windows98 partition but the burning programme (Easy CD creator) couldn't burn them. For some unknown reason Windows and Easy CD creator keep seeing the files as being too large for 700MB CDs. Well, they're both wrong, the ISO images do not exceed 700 MB.

    I used a freeware called CDBurnerXP pro 3 which was able to see the actual file sizes and burnt the ISOs on standard 700MB CDs.

  16. Mandrake Club

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    It's always difficult to pay for something that anyone can get for free. But it's what makes free software special. Use it and if you like it give something back -- whether it is code, money or support to other users.

     

    I am a club member not for the so-called "advantages" but simply because I like using Mandrake. I feel I owe Mandrake team something because I don't think I would have tried linux if it weren't for their distribution. When I switched to linux two years ago I was able to install and use the distribution without any help, which was good because I didn't know any linux user at the time (I still don't --- Microsoft Planet??).

  20. SCSI Emulation

    in Software

    Posted

    Thanks for your explanation.

    I have a question about scsi emulation. When I edit lilo.conf, I can use k3b to burn CDs but I can't play DVDs anymore as I get this message from mplayer : "couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd". Is it normal or did I do something wrong?

    Is there any way I can burn CDs and play DVDs without having to edit lilo.conf and then change it back? I'd appreciate any help.

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