<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2963" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma"> <DIV>Andy;</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I have got the Mepis CDs (All 4 of them) and this weekend I </DIV> <DIV>will try it out on my laptop.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I have browsed the CDs and found that these extra CDs are</DIV> <DIV>having /dists/dapper/main/packages.gz * release files with the </DIV> <DIV>each CD.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This structure is clearly a copy of Dapper archive hence I hope that </DIV> <DIV>these CDs would directly run on "Synaptic package manager".</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If above trick works then I might to Mepis only if I like the KDE in it.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I will check the details of DVD of ubuntu.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Regards</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Yagnesh</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>> > > > ></DIV> <DIV>Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:29:24 +0100<BR>From: Andy <<A href="mailto:stude.list@googlemail.com">stude.list@googlemail.com</A>><BR>Subject: Re: How can one say Linux is $-free . . . ?<BR>To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"<BR> <<A href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</A>><BR>Message-ID:<BR> <<A href="mailto:219482c0610270429j3f5bed1eg1999534ee01966c1@mail.gmail.com">219482c0610270429j3f5bed1eg1999534ee01966c1@mail.gmail.com</A>><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>On 27/10/06, YAGNESH N DESAI <<A href="mailto:ynd@hzw.ltindia.com">ynd@hzw.ltindia.com</A>> wrote:<BR>> Due to this offline problem, I might have to get other Distro of Linux<BR>> may be Mepis (where 3 extra CDs give away all other applications on CDs).<BR>> I am also trying for OpenSuSE & Fedoracore 6 before making final decision.<BR>Have you tried the DVD version of Ubuntu?<BR>Its only available for 6.06 at present but I think it may come with<BR>more packages. Not entirely sure what is on it though, I always use<BR>CD.<BR><A href="http://www.ubuntu.com/products/GetUbuntu/download#lts">http://www.ubuntu.com/products/GetUbuntu/download#lts</A> <BR>(scroll down a bit)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-- <BR>DRM: Digital Restrictions Management -- learn about the dangers at<BR><A href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm">http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR> </DIV></BODY></HTML>