How long has Mandrake been going?

rjcooks · 09-07-2020, 01:49 AM

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Originally Posted by bscho

I was certainly using linux graphics in 1986

That is the funniest thing I have ever seen anyone say in a Linux forum, anywhere, in my long (Linux) life. LMAO

Who is this?

You are done. The game is up, so you might as well reveal who you are.

ondoho · 09-07-2020, 01:39 PM

^ Careful, I was granted a red dot for pretty much the same type of statement.

cynwulf · 10-02-2020, 09:05 AM

Reminds me of this: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ws-4175677110/

Despite all the facts / lack of facts, persists with the same line of argumentation, etc...

mrmazda · 12-19-2020, 12:24 AM

Sounds to me like OP is misremembering dates, and remembering Xenix as Linux. I was using Xenix in 1986-1990, and didn't try Linux until 1999 from Redhat 5.1. I was very turned off by Gnome, but gave Linux another go with KDE in Mandrake 7.0. I never quit KDE3 since KDE4 was loosed. KDE3 remains my primary DE.

coyotl · 03-29-2021, 07:58 AM

ALT Linux started out based on Mandrake and you can still see it though it has changed a lot.

Same with PCLinuxOS, this still uses tools from Mandrake. (ALT is more up to date and technically superior of these 2, tried Pclinuxos once, it crashed after some time.)

Bonzoo · 03-30-2021, 02:39 PM

Ya'' young wimps don't know about zips?

Weirdunix · 04-22-2021, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by cynwulf

Reminds me of this: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ws-4175677110/

Despite all the facts / lack of facts, persists with the same line of argumentation, etc...

OT:
I done a research on that guy TBotNik: his delirium on Quadrant and Super X-Windows I think depends on some psychological problem derived from war, as he was in Korea https://www.army.mil/article/242348/..._south_veteran
Is quite old, so can also be dementia https://www.facebook.com/TBotNik
Quite sad

yancek · 07-21-2021, 08:07 AM

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I was using Linux in Philips in Nürnberg Germany in the 80's maybe the 70's

Doubt it was the Torvalds kernel as he was born in December, 1969.

murphcid · 05-25-2023, 10:31 AM

Is Open Mandriva close to the look and feel that Mandrake users had back in the day, and is it a good release rather than Mageia (which seems to be having issues). Also is Open Mandriva still in development or is it close to becoming the Solus of the Mandrake heirs?

mrmazda · 05-25-2023, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by murphcid

...Mageia (which seems to be having issues).

What issues would those be?

rkelsen · 05-28-2023, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by murphcid

Is Open Mandriva close to the look and feel that Mandrake users had back in the day

No, not at all. Things have changed substantially since 2002.

mrmazda · 05-28-2023, 11:10 PM

It is possible with Mageia. All my Mandrake installations had KDE3. KDE3 was forked as TDE shortly after KDE4 was released. TDE differs very little from KDE3. TDE is available for Mageia. Most of my Mageia installations use TDE, two or three with KDE5 to see what it looks like and how it works.

pyjujiop · 05-31-2023, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by mrmazda

It is possible with Mageia. All my Mandrake installations had KDE3. KDE3 was forked as TDE shortly after KDE4 was released. TDE differs very little from KDE3. TDE is available for Mageia. Most of my Mageia installations use TDE, two or three with KDE5 to see what it looks like and how it works.

TDE is also available as a community release version of PCLinuxOS, which is probably the closest of the successor distros to Mandriva to the original.

TDE is closer to KDE3 than MATE is to GNOME 2 these days.