I think they where trying to figure out which distribution you are
using. 

Also have you looked in to wine for running those windows only apps?


On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 09:20 -0700, Josef Lowder wrote:
> Thanks for responding, but switching distros is not really an option for me 
> as none of the three mentioned distros will work with Win4Lin (as far as I 
> know).  Neither will Mepis or Debian or most other often suggested distros. 
> 
> I use Linux 90% of the time and just need to be able to run Pagemaker 
> and Paint Shop Pro as tasks under Linux, and Mandriva is the only Linux 
> distro that I have been able to determine is viable to do that via Win4Lin. 
> 
> Everybody has their favorite distro, but I think Mandriva is much friendlier 
> and much more versatile than others I have seen, and I have had rock-solid 
> reliability with it for more than five years - this minor little annoying 
> nuisance notwithstanding. 
> 
> In any case, I suspect that this may be something that should be fixable 
> within Kmail, so I'm still hoping someone will be able to offer a more 
> practical remedy than throwing out the baby with the bath water. ;)) 
> 
> ---------------------------------
> On Tuesday 06 June 2006 11:10 pm, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 06:10:27PM -0700, Josef Lowder wrote:
> > > Every time I start Kmail, a "Welcome to Mandriva Linux" message appears
> > > in my inbox.  I delete it each time, but it comes right back over and
> > > over and over again.
> > >
> > > Any clues how to put a stop to this annoying nuisance?
> >
> > Ubuntu? FC5? Gentoo?
> 
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