Paolo Amoroso

A good history of Linux Mandrake (later Mandriva), the first easy-to-use, user-focused Linux distro. It's very interesting as I never got a chance to try it.

abortretry.fail/p/the-history-

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rodlux

@amoroso I used Mandrake for a while, and a company I worked for also had an agreement to give a version our software free to Mandrake users. It never really caught on sadly, but relative to other #linux distros at the time it was pretty good.

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mzan
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@rodlux @amoroso Mandrake CD-ROMs were sold as a gadget of various Italian magazines. It was gorgeous. At the time, KDE was winning the battle against GNOME.

A distro similar to Mandrake, from a philosophical point of view, is Linux Mint.

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