Guest linuxfingers Posted January 20, 2006 Report Share Posted January 20, 2006 (edited) first let me say thanks to all who have made this site the way it is. its full of info, my head hurts in a nice way. thank you. i have installed mandrake limited edition 10.2 everything went smoothly and now im wondering what on earth was holding me to windows for so long. since like 3.1 i have over the last few days looked at the info here and i am quite comfortable most yet though i have a few questions i would like to ask that i didnt find or maybe i missed due to the thread heading. im a new user to linnux or bsd instructions so please feel free to laugh at will. 1- what is meant by limited edition as in my mandrakes's version ? 2- like win XP is it possible to have msm or another chat package that will allow me to talk to my current msm contacts. 3- my site is hosted on a VPS system using centos 3 (i was going to install centos localy but their forum is not worth mentioning) so i installed mandrake with the intention to learn how to configure and maintain the backend of my site . ie performance, mimimal resources, sql and apache. my question is since linux has many different distributors does this means that mandrake is completly different from centus or do i really need to install centus ? thank you Linux fingers Edited January 20, 2006 by linuxfingers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted January 20, 2006 Report Share Posted January 20, 2006 (edited) If you install gaim then you will be able to chat to msn contacts as well as people on other chat protocols... Edit: One thing I should say is that gaim is (I believe) in the normal package repositories Edited January 20, 2006 by phunni Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanes Posted January 20, 2006 Report Share Posted January 20, 2006 You can also instal aMSN messenger, works just like MSN, and its in the repositories. Go to a command line, type "su", give your password and type "urpmi amsn". You should find it in the internet category.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 20, 2006 Report Share Posted January 20, 2006 The default KDE messenger client (kopete) also supports MSN accounts. I naver tried it though, I never use anything MS- related... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted January 20, 2006 Report Share Posted January 20, 2006 1- what is meant by limited edition as in my mandrakes's version ? The name is somewhat misleading, but it is an official, stable, fully-featured release. When Mandriva extended the period between releases to a year, and changed the numbering system as a consequence, Mandriva 2005 Limited Edition/10.2 was released to fill the gap until 2006 was ready. You may also like to check out Mandriva's Product Lifetime Policy - and welcome to the board. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest linuxfingers Posted January 20, 2006 Report Share Posted January 20, 2006 Thanks for the replies they have been helpful in resolvng my situation Thanks again Linux Fingers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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