Redhat are start to charge for the OS. This I think will result in every 1 swaping over to mandrake what do you lot think?

I bought a RedHat 5.2 box back in 1997. No way was I going to try downloading in on a 28.8K modem that never connected over 23K.

There's a Mandrake box sitting right next to the RedHat box on the shelf at Best Buy. I didn't look, but I'm guessing there was a price tag on it, too.

Where were you thinking this thread would go?

I feel that the changes to Red Hat only get better with each version. I have no intention of switching. No offense to Mandrake, I just dig RH 9...

A LOT of OSes already charge. You buy a nice box, you save downloading time, you support your favorite Linux distro and you get a bunch of extras. What's wrong with that?

Especially when (again for a lot of OSes) you can still go online, download it yourself. If you like the distro you're with and it does what you need it to do...why switch?

A non-issue.

After briefly messing with Linux over the past few months and giving up, I finally put my foot down last week and swore I was going to learn it. I downloaded Mandrake 9.1 after having tried Red Hat, SuSE and even Lindows previously. I dunno, but to me it seems like everything came together perfectly. It detected all my hardware, comes with what appears to be a ton of software, and even has MP3 and DivX support out of the box. I was extremely impressed.

It was a free download, but I do plan on purchasing a retail box next time I'm at Best Buy.