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Club

In November 2001, Mandriva introduced Mandriva Club -- a new concept of offering special services and benefits to Club members which also helps the distribution stay true to the Open Source spirit.

Over the past year, Mandriva has developed a wide selection of great benefits and services for Club members, including:

• Full access to commercial applications which are normally only available in retail packs. Over 130 high-quality packages built & tested for Mandriva Linux can be installed with a single mouse click. Applications include easy-to-use web browser plugins, Java, powerful commercial applications and demo versions, software drivers, and lots more
  
• Special download mirror list exclusively for Club members
  
• Club members can request and vote on new software packages with the volunteer-run RPM voting system. Hundreds of great applications are now available for the PC and PPC versions of Mandriva Linux.
  
• Special discounts on third-party products and services. Past promotions have included TransGaming Kohan games, Hancom Office, Yopy, Win4Lin, and many others
  
• Special offers for Mandriva Online such as no advertising, plus discounts and additional free account for "gold" (and higher) level members
  
• Special discounts for products and services at Mandriva Store.
  
• Direct-trading program for Mandriva stock, plus access to real-time trading information
  
• Multilingual discussion forums and multilingual articles
  
• Access to Mandriva Club.com -- a place where your voice will be heard plus access to special "club-only" articles
  
• A huge database of all the software packages that are currently available for the Mandriva Linux distribution. More than 50,000 RPM packages -- over 100GBs of software (and still growing) -- is now available for all versions of Mandriva Linux!!!
  
• Full access to Mandrivas e-learning platform which provides comprehensive courses about Linux and Open Source software, plus quizzes to validate your knowledge.
  
• Early access to Mandriva Linux manuals and technical documentation through a unique online system that collects users & developers comments & suggestions to ensure the best possible level of expertise.
  
• New versions of flagship softwares such as KDE, OpenOffice, Mozilla and more are available in advance to Club members.

In addition to the many benefits of Club membership, you will be helping to ensure the continued development of the Mandriva Linux distribution. The more successful the Club becomes, the better that Mandriva can serve YOU the user.

To view a complete list of Mandriva Club benefits, please visit the Mandriva Club website at www.Mandriva Club.com.

How are membership fees used?

• Membership fees are primarily used to directly fund the development of the Mandriva Linux distribution. Membership fees also pay the salaries of employees who often contribute directly or indirectly to "external" Free Software projects such as the Linux kernel, KDE, GNOME, Prelude, and others
• Fees may also be used for the development of community websites such as Mandriva Linux.com, Mandriva Club.com and the development of Internet services specifically for the benefit of Club members