Also something to note, gentoo does have win4lin support built into it's portage tree. On 6/7/06, Shawn Badger wrote: > 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? > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- "Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it." -Napoleon Bonaparte --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss