yea!!
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.
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.
Probably still have a Mandrake cover CD somewhere
woah blast from the past
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
Thanks so much for these old memories!
yea you’re welcome, a classic linux for all people
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.
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.
It’s been over twenty-five years, but I still lust after Corel Linux
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.
Linux-Mandrake Russian Edition?
I was always stuck on Debian but when I started out the fact mandrake had the tux graphic on the boot screen I thought that was so cool.
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)
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 :-(
Had a good but short run.
Mandriva was for windows users. Hardly Linux users.
Damn I don’t remember using it personally but i think my dad had an install cd with this logo on it.
