> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:03:45 -0400 > Lee Wiggers got an infinite number of monkeys to type out: > >> Damn Joe..........Sleeping again? :) > > Not sure...can't tell the diff anymore... ;) > >> Not worth repeating. Just the usual Mandrival. > > Ya, I saw it on the Expert list. Who needs the Club anyhow? I paid, but never > used it. From your...uh...'comments', I'm kinda glad I never bothered with it :-\
I'm pretty sure everyone has seen issues with just about every service model offered from different vendors even in Open Source. I have been in the field for a number of years but only in a professional model for around 7 or so. In my primary environments I use RHEL for enterprise class hosts/services and the cost associated is a huge leap over what memberships are for Mandriva Club. That being said, my 'personal' preference is still Mandriva for my smaller servers and workstations. Even with all the flaws and issues it still IMHO shows the most potential. After seeing what the company has gone through including mistakes AND successes, they still show tons of promise and potential. For me, the next couple of years will dictate their direction and until then I'll keep supporting them. I never got a club membership for support or benefits or mirror/ftp/torrent access (although it's a nice bonus), I got my membership to support a distro I would like to see advance and optimize. I can understand the frustration however ;-) ... I've had my share of lack of support and lack of decent CS when it came to things I just took for granted should work OR took for granted that the company I was supporting wasn't delivering quite to it's potential on some deliverables it claimed to offer as part of a club membership. Anyway this is just my two cents ... like most of you I'm sure, I've tried every distro, including a TON that are no longer around or failed miserably. For now I will continue to support Mandriva however I can; offering support and help, contributing a little financially by taking advantage of club membership, giving constructive feedback etc ... in my experience this is the only way to help shape an contribute to the success of a company. In an Open Source model trying to carve a niche in enterprise, a big fan base and contributory users such as yourselves are essential to its' success ... sometimes that means enduring years of miss-haps and mistakes before a polished model can be excersized ;-) In this respect Mandriva is in no way any different then any other distro or O/S out there .... again like a lot of people on this list I've tried and even worked with just about every one you can think of including some that don't exist anymore ... the ones that failed were the ones that either completely sucked ... or had no following or users/technicians to help it progress. Some of the ones that did succeed only did so because they had a wack of $ to throw at it ;-) -- Lonny Selinger *LPIC-1 Midrange Systems Architecture Midrange Systems Analyst EDS Canada Ltd. *Linux Professional Institute Certified. Exams Taken/Passed - 101, 102. 201 -- "The glass is neither half empty nor half full ... it is twice as big as it needs to be" ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
