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Quoting "N. Thompson" <n.thomp at sasktel.net>:

> Mandrake tries to make the Mandrake club its main source or revenue though,
> that means preferential treatment to people who would rather pay for a
> subscription allowing them to download their distribution rather then buying
> a boxed set.

Well, it's not too surprising that there's rather high latency involved in
mailing a box versus downloading.

> If I could find out whats no that CD 4 that club members get, I'd probably
> decide to pay for a Mandrake club membership.

Extra packages, nothing incredibly exciting IMO.

> I heard that the 4th CD that Mandrake club members get for free along with
> the
> download edition has NVidia drivers, can someone confirm that for me?

I don't think so.  But it is available via MandrakeClub (as is stuff like
flash), so you can just urpmi it.  If you're a silver member or above, you get
access to the first powerpack isos, which I think have the NVidia driver
integrated.

> > Which one? Sun, Blackdown, etc...
>
> Sun, the only company with up to date (Java 1.4) Java compilers and
> interpreters.

Neither Blackdown nor IBM's JDKs are particularly far behind.  Do you really
need the very bleeding edge?

David