Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 09, 2007 03:32 PM
The most important difference is the price. Mandriva Powerpack is a commercial distro and you must buy it, or become member of the Mandriva Club, and be able to download a lot of commercial versions of Mandriva Linux. Free version is "free as freedom" and "free as free beer": You can download, install and use it with no charge and all the software included is free software, and 100% GPL compilant. Anyway, you can configure your repositorys and install non-free software (like video drivers, flash...) from them. In addition, there are installables non-free live-CD's versions downloadables from Mandriva's Mirrors, avalible for everybody. The rest is the same: configure repository and download the software you need.
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Re:Differences between Powerpack and Free?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 09, 2007 03:32 PMIn addition, there are installables non-free live-CD's versions downloadables from Mandriva's Mirrors, avalible for everybody. The rest is the same: configure repository and download the software you need.
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