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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.
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.)
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?
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.
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.
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