pluggin Mandrake -was- Re: [newbie] LimeWire

[Lloyd Budd]

On 17-May-04, at 15:34, David Lee wrote:

> Good morning
>
> Can't help with the actual configuring, but this is the sort of thing 
> I was
> getting really annoyed with. (me..not Linux)
Not with Linux , with Mandrake Download Edition you mean ?

> There's a bunch of things to try with the "path" and such stuff on the
> Mandrake  forums, but I still couldn't get it going.
> But thats why I upgraded to a silver membership (never start a 
> sentence with
> a conjunction, but it's too far back to correct now) with the 
> commercial
> contributions. I now have Realplayer, Flash and Limewire working 
> flawlessly.
> Also, for some reason, I can download music and such stuff through my 
> router
> that I can't do with gnutella, qtella etc.
>
> David (still plugging Mandrake) Lee
In the competitive market of Linux Distributions , the fact that
desktop functionality is relatively limited with Mandrake
Download Ed influences me to use a different distribution [1] .

Trying before I am buying ,
Lloyd

[1] someone that has donated $ to Mandrake what I felt
I could afford at the time for the value I was getting