• @sznio
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    51 year ago

    It’s beautiful.

  • Gort
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    41 year ago

    That does look quite familiar and cool.

    I started on Mandrake 8.1. I owe Mandrake a lot for starting me off on Linux over twenty years ago.

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    I totally forgot XMMS, what a nice piece of software! Also I didn’t know Netscape was available on Linux

    • Dr. WeskerOP
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      51 year ago

      Also, you didn’t need massive resolutions and screen real estate to be able to see what you’re doing.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    Powerful nostalgia vibes. My first Linux distro was Mandrake 7 or 7.1. Can’t quite recall which one it was but I remember waiting hours for it to download after the boxed copy of RedHat I bought at Incredible Universe just would not cleanly install on my 486 at home.

    I stuck with that distro till around 2005? I think the last version I had installed was Mandriva 2006.

  • ClumsyTomato
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    21 year ago

    Down the memory lane! At that time downloading a full distro with my poor 33.6k modem was an unfeasible nightmare, and I remember buying the Mandrake Powerpack box with several CDs, books… and stickers! I fondly remember how the included assistants (diskdrake and similar “drake” tools) tried to make things easier for newbies like me… and of course they only worked half of the time!

  • rattmatz/forseti
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    21 year ago

    I remember this distro as having a good number of newer storage drivers (cpqarray, in particular) available when installing.

  • Nausiyan
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    11 year ago

    Oh gosh! I remember mandrake. I don’t remember version but do remember it. Was certainly an experience for me. Had no clue what I was doing. No idea how I went from that to gentoo. Stage 1 install was a nightmare I couldn’t forget. Stage 3 is a breeze now.