I'm going to post here what I said at osnews:
I've tried a lot of distros including the latest Red Hat, SuSE, and Slackware. Slack is the only one that could possibly entice me away from Mandrake, but they will have to do much better than Slackware 8.1 to do it. Mandrake is very newbie friendly and works great for CLI fans.
Mandrake also has something that no other distro has...........The Club. Yes, Mandrake Club is for helping to financially support Mandrake. And that support makes the distro get better and better with each release. I joined in December, 2001 and just recently renewed my membership.
There are a lot of benefits to being a Club member. Among them are:
- A multi-lingual forum. Yuo can get help or help someone, praise or complain, make suggestions about Club or the distro.........and MandrakeSoft listens to us.
- Commercial software available only in retail packages is available for download to members. Over 130 apps last time I checked.
- For Silver+ members, StarOffice 6 with a complete license is available.
-We get discounts at MandrakeStore and MandrakeOnline. The club also negotiates discounts with third parties on behalf of Club members such as Win4Lin, Yopy, TransGaming Kohan, and several others.
-We have our own list of download mirrors and we can use the Mandrake Software Manager with these mirrors, which solves all the dependency headaches.
- And best of all, we directly influence the direction of the distro.
- We have a RPM voting system where we request and receive new custom packages.
Denis is constantly adding things to improve the MandrakeClub site and bring us even more benefits. We have something that NO OTHER Linux distribution can offer and I think $5/month for a standard membership is a bargain. Mandrake Linux is not just the distribution I use, it's MY distribution. The CEO of MandrakeSoft visits the site and answers our questions. It much, much more than buying a box with CDs in it. With Mandrake, it's personal.
Mandrake has been my distro of choice for almost 2 years and I can't see anything that is going to change that.
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I'm going to post here what I said at osnews: I've tried a lot of distros including the latest Red Hat, SuSE, and Slackware. Slack is the only one that could possibly entice me away from Mandrake, but they will have to do much better than Slackware 8.1 to do it. Mandrake is very newbie friendly and works great for CLI fans. Mandrake also has something that no other distro has...........The Club. Yes, Mandrake Club is for helping to financially support Mandrake. And that support makes the distro get better and better with each release. I joined in December, 2001 and just recently renewed my membership. There are a lot of benefits to being a Club member. Among them are: - A multi-lingual forum. Yuo can get help or help someone, praise or complain, make suggestions about Club or the distro.........and MandrakeSoft listens to us. - Commercial software available only in retail packages is available for download to members. Over 130 apps last time I checked. - For Silver+ members, StarOffice 6 with a complete license is available. -We get discounts at MandrakeStore and MandrakeOnline. The club also negotiates discounts with third parties on behalf of Club members such as Win4Lin, Yopy, TransGaming Kohan, and several others. -We have our own list of download mirrors and we can use the Mandrake Software Manager with these mirrors, which solves all the dependency headaches. - And best of all, we directly influence the direction of the distro. - We have a RPM voting system where we request and receive new custom packages. Denis is constantly adding things to improve the MandrakeClub site and bring us even more benefits. We have something that NO OTHER Linux distribution can offer and I think $5/month for a standard membership is a bargain. Mandrake Linux is not just the distribution I use, it's MY distribution. The CEO of MandrakeSoft visits the site and answers our questions. It much, much more than buying a box with CDs in it. With Mandrake, it's personal. Mandrake has been my distro of choice for almost 2 years and I can't see anything that is going to change that.