Re: [SLUG] sound advice :)

From: patrick (patrick@llc.net)
Date: Mon May 28 2001 - 18:15:48 EDT


On Monday 28 May 2001 05:10 pm, you wrote:
> On Mon, 28 May 2001, patrick wrote:
> > if u are using mandrake and dont have any system sounds
> > i've got the fix. go to control panel and look and feel and then
> > to themes. click on the Mcbreigh theme. u now have sound
> > and a theme. if u want to rid yourself of the theme then just
> > click on default again. when i installed my mandrake last
> > time i didnt get any sounds. this is a newbie way to work
> > around all the programming stuff :)
> >
> > am i brilliant or what :)
>
> It must go with the distribution ...
>
> Hey, those Mandrake folks must to be on to something ...
>
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/donations/
>
> The've let their CEO go ( http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/pr-deny.php3 ),
> because he wanted to move into markets which have income stream
> possibilities,

their ceo wanted to take mandrake away from the desktop. that is not
where everybody else wanted to go.
go to mandrake news and do the follow up to the page they give
u and read the articles, its quite amazing to me at least that we got
such a leading edge mandrake.
>
> and gone to a distributed support model, where customers can
> 'tip' on a voluntary basis their volunteer support community
> (with MandeakeSoft taking a cut for the service),
>
> and to soliciting voluntary gifts to a private, closely held,
> pre-IPO, for-profit Societe Anonymee ...
>
> Those crazy French ... maybe that's why their version of the
> penguin logo looks like he is sitting in a stew-pot. <grin>

i always thought the mandrake penguin was the happiest of all the
penguins :)

>
> -- Russ

the power, the power , and i believe and u believe and we believe
we believe that everything is just alright.



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