Re:IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view
by temporallobe on Friday August 04, 2023 @10:24PM
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You are correct - I have the same book with the CD of RHL still stuck to the back. I don’t think I ever installed it, but I did install Mandrake Linux and used the dummy book to learn it. Why such an odd distro like Mandrake? I literally found it on the shelf in a Best Buy. I was already a heavy Unix user at work (we all had dumb terminals running Solaris) and I really wanted that experience on my personal system, thus started my
life-long love for Linux.
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Re:IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view
by sp332 on Friday August 04, 2023 @11:06PM
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Mandrake was pretty nice. It was the first Linux install I got a scanner to work with.
Re:IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view
by dizhn on Saturday August 05, 2023 @05:12AM
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My first desktop Linux is Mandrake too. Reason? It had KDE. It looked like Windows. I've recently come back to KDE by way of OpenSuse. Both decisions surprise even myself. I never thought I'd use an rpm based distro again. (I am using Tumbleweed. Rolling updates+snapper snapshots on btrfs is what sold it to me. I would prefer zfs but had no issues with btrfs yet in two years)
Re:IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view
by licebmi__at__ on Saturday August 05, 2023 @11:43AM
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Hey, I also first installed Mandrake. I got it in on a magazine. I always a thought it was a common distro, kinda like ubuntu some years later when they started shipping disks