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Mandriva is the new kid on the block. Real classic Linux users will remember Mandrake.
Mandrake was the 2nd distro I tried some 25 years ago.
I first tried a version of red hat that I got from a CD on the cover of a PC magazine back in 1999. I was barely a teenager, didn’t know what I was doing, ended up hating it. Then a couple years later I read about Mandrake, again got it from a CD on the front of a magazine. I used it for about a year before hopping to Slackware.
My love hate relationship started with that cd. My dad hated it though because I was screwing up the boot every time.
My first around the same time, I couldn’t believe something like that was free. Now I’m on Bazzite and I still can’t believe it.
Same here. I started out on Debian Woody, then decided to try a side install of Mandrake specifically because it was supposed to be the most user-friendly option. I do recall liking the Mandrake experience well enough at the time–but stayed primarily using Debian, because I’m stubborn and rather enjoyed the sense of challenge.
(Also kinda setting the continuing pattern of keeping at least one side distro or OS going to try out. These days, they are more likely to live in VMs though.)
My very first distro I believe was Mandrake 10, it’s the distro that planted the seed to eventually switch for real with Ubuntu 7.10
… And conectiva.
And they may know how conectiva died, and have sworn off SuSE because of it.
Damn, I didn’t realise I still had that memory until now!
Aah, tho med brain didn’t lie to me, good to know!
Huh, my first Linux distro was the very same distro and version that the original release of Linux-Mandrake was based on (Red Hat Linux 5.1)
I recall trying Mandrake at some point, but I don’t remember when. I might have had it installed on a laptop.
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Mandrake was the first distro I was looking for in a small city, in the third world in the 90s. Couldn’t put my hands on those CDs, not even in the one university with some sort of computational engineering career there. I first installed Slackware.
Basically the Pimp Named Slickback of Linux distributions.
Another contender:
The origin of
yum, the Yellowdog Updater Modified.context please, I am an uneducated delinquent
Yellow Dog Linux was the/an option for those with PowerPC processors in their Macs and clones from the olden days.
I’m pretty sure I ran this on a PS3.
Fedora for PPC (I kid)
Mandrake 10 was my first distro, then I was hooked.
A friend gave me the 6-CD “power pack” of Mandrake 10 that could install a quite wide range of optional software completely offline. Hooked me too.
Bah. Make it a challenge.
Turbo. Conectiva. Stampede. Corel. Open.
And the painfully ironically-named UnitedLinux. Go get the inside scoop on that gangwar.
Man, Corel Linux looks like a vibe. The box looks familiar but don’t think I ever used it.
@dx1 @corsicanguppy Corel was the revolution we need on the Desktop distros. It was the first distro with a graphical installation (and an easy one). Corel just didn’t have the luck they needed, because it was released with KDE 1 with the corresponding qt libraries. KDE 2 was released just a year or less after the Corel Linux be released.
Corel was beautiful. It was, like gWave, ahead of its time.
And, being from Corel, it wasn’t only beautiful, but also tainted by PTSD from using CorelDRAW, which was so bad that the user needed to reboot after/while using it to reclaim leaked RAM.
It’s been over twenty-five years, but I still lust after Corel Linux
In February 2004, MandrakeSoft lost a court case against Hearst Corporation, owners of King Features Syndicate. Hearst contended that MandrakeSoft infringed upon King Features’ trademarked character Mandrake the Magician. As a precaution, MandrakeSoft renamed its products by removing the space between the brand name and the product name and changing the first letter of the product name to lower case, thus creating one word. Starting from version 10.0, Mandrake Linux became known as mandrakelinux, and its logo changed accordingly. Similarly, MandrakeMove (a Live CD version) became Mandrakemove.
In April 2005, Mandrakesoft announced the corporate acquisition of Conectiva, a Brazilian-based company that produced a Linux distribution for Portuguese-speaking (Brazil) and Spanish-speaking Latin America. As a result of this acquisition and the legal dispute with Hearst Corporation, Mandrakesoft announced that the company was changing its name to Mandriva, and that their Linux distribution Mandrake Linux would henceforward be known as Mandriva Linux.
Oh wow, that was legit my second Linux distro back in 2002 after failed attempts with SUSE.
But for some reason my brain remembered that it was called Mandrake, not Mandriva.
name change
Because it was. Only very late right before the project was killed they renamed it
woah blast from the past
Probably still have a Mandrake cover CD somewhere
Mandriva was for windows users. Hardly Linux users.
@adrianhooves This unlocked a core memory in me … And I hated it. Old kde (I think 3) couldn’t run on my potato…and I wasn’t versed enough then to change that.
Edit - landed on pclinuxos for a bit
Had a good but short run.
My first distro was Yggdrasil
I honestly do not remember if I used SLS or Yggdrasil first. I know that I used SLS longest. I think I tried Yggdrasil in second and then went back.
I was all in on Red Hat when they came along but did move to Mandrake for quite a while (sweet i586 packages). It is all a bit of a blur after that but a fairly long Fedora stint. The only thing I never used much was Ubuntu.
Thanks so much for these old memories!
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Damn I don’t remember using it personally but i think my dad had an install cd with this logo on it.
