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[–] GenProtectionFault@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At the time, I bought a boxed copy of 7.0 at Wal-Mart of all places. That was my first introduction to Linux. Mandrake was easy enough that I could fumble through and learned a ton in the process. Grateful for its existence and the fact that they had a retail version for someone without reliable Internet access at the time

[–] zik@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Same. I still have my copy of Mandrake 7.2.

[–] amoroso@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

At the time I used Slackware and Red Hat which definitely required tweaking at least xorg.conf and more.