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.
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.
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.
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.
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •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…
OpenPrinting - How did this all begin?
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