From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 12:34:27 -0800, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
      
   > I did not start using Linux as early as you guys.   
   > A friend of mine now passed on, helped me choose Mandriva. Then he could   
   > not figure out how to get a copy to me. A pal in Norway shipped me a DVD   
   > with Mandriva 2006 as 6 CD iso file.   
      
   I had Mandrake on one box. In its day is was one of the easier Linuxes to   
   install. I don't remember much about it other than installing it on an old   
   machine that cost $20. I think that was the one where the BIOS limited the   
   HDD to 528 MB. By then drives that small were very hard to find and more   
   expensive that larger ones. I hit a couple of computer stores and asked   
   what they did with the old %28 MB drive. 'Oh, we throw those in the   
   dumpster.'   
      
   Mandrake wound up in a trademark suit and became Mandriva. I think their   
   artwork included a penguin with a magic wand. The Mandrake the Magician   
   people didn't appreciate the cultural reference.   
      
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