Helloooooooooooo

I am thinking to buy the Mandrake 10.0 PowerPack version. Because I am a Java programmer nad a client-server applications designer.

So, do u think that this the most suitable version for me?

And , does it worth to pay 80 Euro to get it?Or there are a Free ones?

thanks

I've purchased 9.0 and 9.2 PowerPack Editions and found the extra cds filled with drivers and apps to be very worth while as I only have a 56K connection atm, and needed modem driver to be able to even slowly download other updates.

If you cant afford to give a lot of money to Mandrake for their pack editions, and cant download the .isos of the Download Edition, you could try buying it already burned on cds, eg from http://fastdiscs.com/. That's what I've done for 10.0 Official.

We have a proverb in Slovenia: "If you offer him a finger, he pulls your hand out"

Power pack is the complete distribution. Now compare prices if you buy all the software with the same functions for Windows?
OS alone is more expensive. These lousy 80€ will go for anti-virus software alone in that case.

So, Can I go ahead...>>>

Go ahead. Mandrake full official is realy worth it, and just take in context what the slovenia guy said.

Think about this:
10.1 beta is out. I've tried it. I'v tried a lot of other betas before and I can tell this is the most mature beta ever. No bugs, smooth installation, a lot of new stuff, unbelievably user friendly. We can expect that the official version will be really something.
If you get silver membership at Mandrakeclub for 120$ (100€) you will be able to download 10.0 Power-pack AND 10.1 Power-pack.
What do you think? One distro for 80€ or two for 100€?

And about your second question
Yes, you can find all the stuff, included in Power-pack for free.
But, is it fair?

I didn't mean cracked one's

Nor did I. What I mean is this:
Is it fair to take it all and not give anything?

I think Mandrake is a great, easy to use, and stable distro. It should do everything you need fine. You can download it off of sites like linuxiso.org but you will get much more content, features and support if you choose to buy it.

If I were you I would (and soon will) go for Powerpack 10.1 or that download option. I had rather a lot of trouble with my 10.0 Official, until I got kernel 2.6.7. It would lock up on me a lot, and turned out to be the kernel IDE drivers/something like that were buggy in 2.6.3-7mdk. So I got 2.6.7 and now I absoluetly love Mandrake 10.

I've always wanted to buy a distro so that I could support the makers, but I haven't found one that had the solidity and perfection I expected from an OS (especially a Linux one). But considering that I find almost everything is perfect on my Mandrake 10.0 release now with a new kernel (just need to recompile some software), I am going to buy the Officially Official perfect distro, one, to me, that is not personally modded to work right (kernel). When 10.1 arrives, I will be buying it full price from Mandrake, and I will be writing them a letter thanking them for such a wonderful linux distro and letting them know I would not have bought it if it weren't so wonderful and, in my opinion, completely superior to XP in every single way.

I would encourage you to do nothing but the same.

thanks for all of u for encouraging me

mmmmm.. I don't think so
do u think...