Hey everyone, I was considering crossing from suse 9.1 to mandrake 10.1 official to test out speed difference as suse 9.1 is dead slow and chews up memory, however one thing i noticed is that it seems you have to pay for critical system updates, is this true? On suse all updates are free as they should be, even win doesn't make you pay for updates; this will definitely be the deciding factor in changing over.

Been using Mandy for ages now, haven't paid for an update yet.

You can pay to become a member of the Mandrake Club, but it's entirely voluntary and there are some benefits, but not being a member doesn't exclude you from the essentials like critical updates and security updates and such.

The pay part you speak about is the Mandrakeonline.com feature. It's basically an automatic update feature, like the WIndows update feature. That does cost money and is a $20 a year or something. If you're a Mandrake club member with a silver membership or higher, than you get it for free for a year.

Other than that, it's still totally free to download updates. The mandrakeonline just makes it so you don't have to click on a few icons to update but rather click on one icon on your desktop which does all the updating for you automatically.

Thanks, yeah, well I'll move over to Mandrake if what you guys say is true and updates dont cost, by the way does anyone know if it's any faster that suse? I know that all the gui linux distros use up quite a bit of memory but suse is dead slow, it would be good to know if someone had the same problems as m, and moved over to mandrake with speed improvements.

Actually all the Mandrake system does is ALERT you to the availablity of updates.

You can still download all the updates you want, either automatically via a cron/timed script or by using URPMI.