Is mandrake 10.0 available for free?

[mamali]

about mandrake 10.0

dear all,
is mandrake 10.0 available freely? i know that its about 8cd!, but i want to know it is free or not. and, in diffrent linuxs, what is the position of mandrake?

rgrds, marti

 

[geconom]

Re: about mandrake 10.0

I know there are 3 free CDs to download. I do not know about 8 CDs, it may be an "advanced" edition which is not free.

 

[mamali]

Re: about mandrake 10.0

it has officially 4 fool cds.
and how about knoppix(1 cd), slackware(4cds), and slax(1cd)? are they free too?

 

[z81203]

about mandrake 10.0

i think you said is commercial version. from internet, just 3 cd.
check here.
hxxp://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=29
or
hxxp://www.mandrakelinux.com/

 

[1]

Re: about mandrake 10.0

i have some doubt about it, we bought a commercial mandrake from an exhibition last year, and it was more than 4 CDs, i think 6 or 8.

 

[hjankin]

about mandrake 10.0

I think the only need 3 CDs to install the CD.
Others maybe tools or source CDs.

 

[egon]

Re: about mandrake 10.0

I agree with hjankin.
Knoppix is free and Suse is also free as evaluation version.

 

[samcheetah]

Re: about mandrake 10.0

from what i know, all distros of linux are free for download. but if u order a CD from some online store u have to pay for it.

each distro of linux has a number of mirrors (do a google on this for the distro u want) from where u can download the ISO images of the installation CDs. u should have a CD writer and a burning software that will burn the image onto a CD.

now no matter how big the installation is it will be free. the add-ons are also free. u only have to pay a price when u actually buy the CD from somewhere (which is usually not much expensive)

if u have a fast internet connection then u should download the distro but if u have a slow connection its better if u buy the CD as opposed to wait for weeks for the images to be downloaded.

i hope that helps

 

[RoZ]

Re: about mandrake 10.0

Mandrake 10.0 download: 3 CDs with free binary packages
and installer

Mandrake 10.0 for buying: depends on the version, e.g.
"MDK 10.0 professional" comes with one DVD and 8 CDs.
Additional CDs contains sources, docs and nonfree
commercial packages.

 

[akupokjoe]

Re: about mandrake 10.0

i have using mandrake 9.2,it pretty good compare to other distributor,in its package,there are already have ntfs RPM,movie player,mp3,etc.its very good for begginer like me,now i'm migrating to fedora.fedora also is quite ok with pre-compiled new kernel 2.6,and new GNOME 2.6. let try it.more stable... [/b]