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Mandrake was my first Linux OS.
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.
Because it was. Only very late right before the project was killed they renamed it
name change
@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
Mandriva was for windows users. Hardly Linux users.
Thanks so much for these old memories!
My first distro was Yggdrasil
I used Mandrake when the *.2 versions were the ones to install, starting with 8.2 and then they killed it all with the advertising :-(
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.
Aw, Mandrake! I didn’t know what I was doing back then and chose it because of the root. Stuck with it until Ubuntu came out a bit later.
Another contender:
Fedora for PPC (I kid)
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.
Had a good but short run.
woah blast from the past
Probably still have a Mandrake cover CD somewhere
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.