Re: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?
Lawson, Jim wrote: I think 120 a year is high. I would like to see this at 80. 120 is the silver level, 60 is for standard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?
What is the difference? Does silver offer anything more? -Original Message- From: Eric Fernandez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy? Lawson, Jim wrote: I think 120 a year is high. I would like to see this at 80. 120 is the silver level, 60 is for standard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?
Lawson, Jim wrote: What is the difference? Does silver offer anything more? Silver members could download the isos of the powerpack through bittorrent. However, standard members have the download edition + access to all commercial packages, so you have exactly the equivalent of a powerpack. You just have to install commercial applications by yourself (for example pre compiled ATI or nvidia drivers), on a powerpack it would be installed during the OS installation. But urpmi/rpmdrake makes it easy to use, since club repositories are media like any others (with login/password access). So you just need to install the download edition, add the club media (commercial, test) and you have an equivalent access to the CDs of the powerpack. See my guide about the software installer and media management : http://www.zebulon.org.uk/ICML0.HTML Cheers. Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?
IIRC, the best for Mandrake is to buy a club membership and then use the download edition David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ricardo (Tru64 User) Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 9:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy? OK, I have some money, would like to support Mandy as much as I like using it. I am intending to upgrade an 8.2 machine (not updates for it anymore, even security, right?), who basic function is running 2 webservers, (virtual) and as an anonymous ftp server. The anonyftp files are on a promisetech raid array, hooked with an adaptec 29160 scsi card. The download version of 8.2 worked 100% for me. Now that i was considering purchasing the 9.2, I can see lots of versions out therePowerpack, Pro-Suite, Discovery, Corporate Server!! It is not for home usebut yet don't need all the business/selling language associated with the versions...all I need is a Good working Mandrake 9.2, whereby I can download updates without passwords!! as I have always done with 8.2. Basically same Freedom, but not Free ($0.00) We all understand the process consumes money! Which one should I go for? __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?
Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: Which one should I go for? If you don't need anything super-special, I think download edition + contribs (that have an enterprise kernel on them) will do. I believe all Mandrake packs now come with contribs, so it won't matter which box to get. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?
On Monday 17 November 2003 11:43 am, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: I have always done with 8.2. Basically same Freedom, but not Free ($0.00) We all understand the process consumes money! If all you want to do is contribute financially, continue to use the download edition and buy a Club membership. Highest profit margin plus you get access to all the Commercial software included in PowerPack (except Win4Lin and VMware trials) for download. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?
I think 120 a year is high. I would like to see this at 80. -Original Message- From: Greg Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy? On Monday 17 November 2003 11:43 am, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: I have always done with 8.2. Basically same Freedom, but not Free ($0.00) We all understand the process consumes money! If all you want to do is contribute financially, continue to use the download edition and buy a Club membership. Highest profit margin plus you get access to all the Commercial software included in PowerPack (except Win4Lin and VMware trials) for download. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?
OK, the consesus seems to be buying Mandrake Club membership, and most ppl prefer the download edition. (mandrake, maybe dont spend too much time making all those other editions...) I am just hoping Mandrake wont drop the ball on the downloaded edition, and stop offering updates, like Redhat did (kind-off)...thus only supporting the paid for editions. Thanks all for the quick replies.I got my three CD's downloaded in under 40mins over the weekend. Suprisingly, the chelo site in Switzerland is amazingly faster than all other many other mirrors I have used located in the USI being located in the US! Something speedy about transatlantic cables? --- Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think 120 a year is high. I would like to see this at 80. -Original Message- From: Greg Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy? On Monday 17 November 2003 11:43 am, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: I have always done with 8.2. Basically same Freedom, but not Free ($0.00) We all understand the process consumes money! If all you want to do is contribute financially, continue to use the download edition and buy a Club membership. Highest profit margin plus you get access to all the Commercial software included in PowerPack (except Win4Lin and VMware trials) for download. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?
On Monday 17 November 2003 02:00 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: OK, the consesus seems to be buying Mandrake Club membership, and most ppl prefer the download edition. (mandrake, maybe dont spend too much time making all those other editions...) I am just hoping Mandrake wont drop the ball on the downloaded edition, and stop offering updates, like Redhat did (kind-off)...thus only supporting the paid for editions. Thanks all for the quick replies.I got my three CD's downloaded in under 40mins over the weekend. Suprisingly, the chelo site in Switzerland is amazingly faster than all other many other mirrors I have used located in the USI being located in the US! Something speedy about transatlantic cables? All the disk sets are based off of the same distribution tree, so no matter what disk set you install from, all the updates apply. The differences are usually in the level of support and the options available at install time. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?
Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: OK, the consesus seems to be buying Mandrake Club membership, and most ppl prefer the download edition. (mandrake, maybe dont spend too much time making all those other editions...) I am just hoping Mandrake wont drop the ball on the downloaded edition, and stop offering updates, like Redhat did (kind-off)...thus only supporting the paid for editions. Thanks all for the quick replies.I got my three CD's downloaded in under 40mins over the weekend. Suprisingly, the chelo site in Switzerland is amazingly faster than all other many other mirrors I have used located in the USI being located in the US! Something speedy about transatlantic cables? --- Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think 120 a year is high. I would like to see this at 80. -Original Message- From: Greg Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy? On Monday 17 November 2003 11:43 am, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: I have always done with 8.2. Basically same Freedom, but not Free ($0.00) We all understand the process consumes money! If all you want to do is contribute financially, continue to use the download edition and buy a Club membership. Highest profit margin plus you get access to all the Commercial software included in PowerPack (except Win4Lin and VMware trials) for download. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree You don't have to worry about Mandrake not offering the updates for the download edition, like some other distros. It's the same update process whether you have the download addition or any of the other editions. Mandrake doesn't have a subscription based update system. Updates are freely available to all. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
