misfitpierce

What are the differences between Mandriva Free 2007 (received the dvd with the November 2006 issue of Linux Magazine) and the boxed retail Mandriva Powerpack 2007 (aside form the obvious lack of manufacturer Support)? And if I like Mandriva well enough to want to stay with it, do I need to buy the retail box, or can I download it by joining the Mandriva Club to get whatever features are missing from the free version? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, you got Free and powerpack here. Powerpack comes with a lot of goodies and extras bundled in as well as support I believe. Also note that the Free version is just open source software I believe and One has pretty much everything. I dont know if im 100% correct but in any case I run Mandriva One and printer, wireless and everything works top notch

I saw this on April 2nd on thier site... Think i'll just await final version though.

No and I wouldn't try it. As said you may get BSOD haha

Wow! You werent kidding... Where did you get that background lol

New to boards somewhat and been windows free and on linux for 4 months now. But yeah heres what I got this month. Mandriva 2007.0 - Click image to view larger.... Didnt really customize too much atm... but it looks great to me and works perfect

I saw that article on digg... Nice....

What you read online about trojans and all that is mainly for the windows world. I've been runnin linux distros for awhile now and have not bumped into a trojan, spyware, or anything for linux so there are no worries. I only run a tightly maintained firewall and thats it.

Im on Mandriva 07' and it set itself ahead automatically.