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Before Ubuntu, there was a Linux desktop called Mandrake Linux. Simple, stylish, and way ahead of its time. 🔥

#linux #mandrakelinux

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I used it with pleasure for a while. It was the only RPM based distribution I used.
My heart is always on the Debian side. FreeBSD and OpenBSD operating systems have also won my heart in the meantime.
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I used Mandrake 8.0 for a while, but the next release I tried, 8.2 was the buggiest Linux distribution release I've ever encountered. So I started looking for alternatives, and switched to Slackware.
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there was also #slackware - quite possibly the first Linux I’ve ever tried 😃
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that brings back memories. Used Mandrake and Mandriva for many a year.
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I used Mandrake/Mandriva as the first Linux distribution beyond pure experimentation starting from 2004. The producer's problems led me to install Ubuntu on the desktop I bought in 2010, but I have some nice memories of Mandrake/Mandriva.
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One of my favorites. Both Mandrake Linux and Corel Linux back in the day were awesome!
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I heard of Mandrake, but didn't know that was predecesor of Ubuntu.
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❤️ Used it for a bit back in the late 90's. As I recall, it was the first linux distro I actually was able to install.
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I have worked for 6 years (2000-2006) at MandrakeSoft/Mandriva in Paris, and my very first task was switching from LPD (Line Printer Daemon, line printers are kind of high-speed electric typewriters) to #CUPS and so Mandrake was the first distro with CUPS and easy printing.

So whatever Mandrake version was released in fall of 2000 was the first ever Linux distro on the world which used CUPS.

And that was the foundation of #OpenPrinting !

openprinting.github.io/history…

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nice box. I have used Mandrake. Those were the days with all the boxes

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