[Nottingham] Two Questions

[Michael Leuty]

On Thursday 10 Jun 2004 17:31, James Dobson wrote:
> 1) I've been thinking about joining the mandrake
> user's club as a silver memeber..
> Can anyone either suggest why I shouldn't or should do
> this! I love mandrake but I'm not sure if becoming a
> member will give me anything other than supporting a
> distro with money (which is not a bad thing)?

I'm a silver member, although I shall be letting it lapse as I now use 
another distro loosely based on Red Hat.

Supporting the distro is a very good reason for membership. You also get 
priority for new releases, which are made available to members before the 
hoi polloi. There are (supposedly) special secret and fast FTP mirrors for 
downloading. You get the latest RPM packages. And you can download the 
retail version of the distro which has all the commercial stuff like 
RealAudio and Java set up for you.

-- 
Michael Leuty