Mandrake 9.0 available

Post by **fawad** » Sun Nov 24, 2002 1:27 am

Mandrake 9.0 is ready for release, shipping to dealers
has started today on 19th Nov 2002. Please place your
orders through the shop you buy other CD's. Note the
address and details of 'KC CD' and pass them on to
your favourite shopkeeper.

Main Distributor
________________
Mr Aamir Mahmood
Karachi Computer
Shop F-126 First Floor
Rainbow Center
Saddar
Karachi.

Voice :92-21-7787190
Ph. & Fax :92-21-7780330
E-mail :kc@pakban.net

Please direct all inquiries to them.

If your shop keeper does not have these, then ask him
to order this for you through the same channel he is
getting other CD's released by "KC CD", "KC 2000" ,
"KC 2001".

Please try to place order through your favourite
retail shop from where you buy other CD's. Ask him [or
you can forward on his behalf to kc@pakban.net to send
his name, address, phone, email for inclusion in our
on-line list of retail points for Linux / Open Source
CD's. This will help others in locating the retail
point nearest to them.

Following shops will be having these CD's. Please send
more names for inclusion in this list.

LAHORE:
_______
Karachi Computer
F-18 First Floor
Darul Rehmat Plaza
Yaseen Street
Hall Road
Lahore.
Phone :7122680
Mobile:0300 9426011

RAWALPINDI
___________
Sh. Abdul Ghaffur
Shop No.2 Mughal Sarai Market
Raja Bazar
Rawalpindi.
Phone : 5558485

PESHAWAR
_________
C.D.Tech
Peshawar.
Phone : 853084

MULTAN
_______
C.D. Zone
49 Khan Plaza
Multan Cantt.
Phone : 0300 9447369

SUKKUR
_______
Mr Anwar Ali Shah
Imperial Computer
Shop # 4 Glamour Shopping Mall
Ghanta Ghar
Sukkur.
Phone: 071-616556, 651811

QUETTA
_______
Mr. Asif Naeem
Agha Siraj Complex
Quetta.
Phone: 0320 9380058

Ovais · Post by **Ovais** » Mon Nov 25, 2002 1:44 am

salam,

thats a great work. but alas, i just downloaded the two cd's myself. is there anything special in this relaese, or just the 2/3 cds avaiable on the net?

also, i have abother idea for the promotion of linuz in pakistan. as a lot of you already know that there exists certain linux distros that can be run directly from cd's, i am downloading two named DemoLinux, and VirtualLinux myself.

if we can get cd of this kinda distro made and placed just like the mandrake one, many novice computer users will be able to try and see for themselves the benifits of linux. here is a list of such distros:
<a href="http://directory.google.com/Top/Compute ... D/?tc=1</a>

what do you people say?

Ovais

mahin · Post by **mahin** » Mon Nov 25, 2002 1:07 pm

Salaam!

Depends, if that works for you then great! IMHO it is better to have more available on CD just in case

Thanks for suggestion we have received originals [ Demo Linux ] from INRIA and are in process of deciding which one to choose first Demo Linux or Knoppix 3.1. Any comments ?

Do you have VirtualLinux ? Any comments ?

Thanks for your input.

haroon · Post by **haroon** » Sat Nov 30, 2002 5:52 am

Salaam
Isnt mandrake more for beginners, i just got red hat 8.0 my dad brought it back from pakistan ahhaah
Allah Hafiz

mahin · Post by **mahin** » Sat Nov 30, 2002 11:05 am

haroon wrote:Salaam
Isnt mandrake more for beginners, i just got red hat 8.0 my dad brought it back from pakistan ahhaah
Allah Hafiz

One begin's with what ever one have!

BTW I visited ....

Good work!!!

haroon · Post by **haroon** » Sat Nov 30, 2002 1:16 pm

^^^what did you visit? i hope you visited my site:)

if · Post by if » Wed Dec 11, 2002 11:25 am

Asalm-o-Aliakum

RAWALPINDI
___________
Sh. Abdul Ghaffur
Shop No.2 Mughal Sarai Market
Raja Bazar
Rawalpindi.
Phone : 5558485

I contact the person on telephone but they told me that they closed the CD's bussiness.... from some month ago..... kindly tell me any where in Pindi / Islamabad.... CD are available.... thx

mahin · Post by **mahin** » Thu Dec 12, 2002 11:53 am

I rechecked and was informed that one has to visit not ask on phone.

Would it be possible for you to send some one to vist the shop and ask for it ? At least they can guide who has it now. I am sorry for the hassel:(

May I request again for new names [ in any city ] and addresses of shop keepers willing to stock Linux / OpenSource CD's. Please send all such info to cd@pakban.net

if · Post by if » Thu Dec 12, 2002 1:19 pm

Aslam-o-Aliakum,

as i mentioned earlier personally i didn't visit the shop about before visit i check through a telephone call .... and the person i talk person that this is a open source but... me tell me they closed the business and after some time i realized that this why he refuse :

" Some time BSD persons through surveillance check the pirated CD shops... and prepare ground 4 crack down"

am i clear now ... but Insha-Allah i'll personally go to this shop and parchase it ... if it is available.. thx 4 health comments (mahin).

Meanwhile ... is anybody tell me it possible to updgrade from Redhat 8.0 to Mandrake 9.0.... (only 4 knowledge if any body did / try this then what happened).

mahin · Post by **mahin** » Thu Dec 12, 2002 1:46 pm

if wrote:Aslam-o-Aliakum,

Meanwhile ... is anybody tell me it possible to updgrade from Redhat 8.0 to Mandrake 9.0.... (only 4 knowledge if any body did / try this then what happened).

In theory it may have been possible before but now may be some Brave soul may had tried and succedded

In short if you have extra time at your hands do inform us. perhaps you could undertake some project for PLUC

. BTW do try [ on some spare machine - with out which you could live

]to find out if it works then post here for knowledge of all. Have fun:)

if · Post by if » Fri Dec 13, 2002 8:57 am

Aslam-o-Aliakum,

mahin wrote:
In short if you have extra time at your hands do inform us. perhaps you could undertake some project for PLUC . BTW do try [ on some spare machine - with out which you could live ]to find out if it works then post here for knowledge of all. Have fun:)

these days i've 3-4 hours a day which i spent on tajrba's on machine some if there is any project which i can do .... i'll do ... but keep in mind i newbie on linux... thx

Post by **fawad** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 11:10 pm

Here's what I did for the transition from Redhat 8 to MDK 9:

1. Backed up /etc, /home,/usr/local,/var (only important parts of it) on a CD.
2. Installed MDK from scratch. During install, I formatted the root partition, keeping the /home partition intact (barey loag recommend keeping all the filesystems on seperate partitions. Being lazy, I only have seperate partitions for swap, /boot, /home, and /.
3. Restored stuff from the CD as I needed it. I started out by setting up Postfix and PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL worked out of the box from the restore. Had to change 1 line in main.cf for Postfix due to the difference in the binary directories between Redhat and Mandrake.

if · Post by if » Tue Dec 17, 2002 8:41 am

Aslam-o-Aliakum,

thx... fawad...

Umais · Post by **Umais** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 11:54 pm

I was just wondering that KC comes out with all the pirated CD's(common in pakistan); so i presume that this CD would also be pirated, as in not endorsed by Mandrake.

Any thoughts on that?

mahin · Post by **mahin** » Sun Dec 22, 2002 12:52 am

Umais wrote:<snip>so i presume that this CD would also be pirated, as in not endorsed by Mandrake.

Any thoughts on that?

As far Mandrake is concerned there are no issues, you may use it with full confidence.

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