[NMLUG] Mandriva 2006 Powerpack, cheap

[sbrowne at ix.netcom.com (Steve Browne)]

On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 08:11:30 -0700, you wrote:

>On Saturday 05 November 2005 16:52, Steve Browne wrote:
>> If you googlesearch, you can find Mandriva 2006 Powerpack DVD (i586)
>> for as little as $9.99 mailed. The Powerpack version contains 4,000+
>> apps. This compared to Mandriva's official price of $85; though the
>> official price also includes an AMD-64 DVD, manuals and a tech support
>> subscription. But we don' need no stinkin' manuals, do we?
>
>I wouldn't pay $9.99--or $1.00--for Mandriva these days... ever since the 
>Mandrake -> Mandriva conversion, the quality of the distribution has really 
>tanked. 
>
>I've used Mandrake since the beginning, when they first were a RedHat 
>ripoff. I've seen them improve, and become a great distribution. I used to 
>be an active Mandrake Cooker developer, and was a MandrakeClub member. But, 
>now I'm trying to clean the unfortunate distribution off my computers that 
>are still running it.
>
>But maybe it will get better again in the future...

What's wrong with Mandriva 2006? I, myself, didn't like Mandriva 2005
and went back to Mandrake 10.1. Maybe it HAS gotten better.

Steve
Stephen B. Browne
sbrowne@ix.netcom.com
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