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  1. 04-07-2005, 12:11 PM #1
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    Mandriva...

    Like a Polish bride on her wedding night, Mandrake has been thinking about something long and hard. A new name! (ahem... sorry)

    But seriously...

    http://linuxtoday.com/news/2005040701826NWBZMD

    Mandrake, after its merger with Connectiva will now be called Mandriva

    I don't know anything about Connectiva, but I don't like the name change. Mandrake was a really cool name and the name Mandriva, I dunno, just invokes the eww factor.

    Even when I was a Windows user, and kept hearing about this Mandrake Linux distribution that was so cool, the name was enticing. Mystical, and it inspired awe. I have very fond memories of earlier Mandrake distributions, when I was first discovering. I installed Mandrake 7.0 a few times over the years to play with, just for nostalgia.

    Ok, so I'm being silly and sentimental.
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    Re: Mandriva...

    Originally posted by Grogan

    I don't know anything about Connectiva, but I don't like the name change. Mandrake was a really cool name and the name Mandriva, I dunno, just invokes the eww factor.
    Have to agree with you on the new name. Alot of barf factor there.

    How about ConMan!?!

    Sorry.

    I have very fond memories of earlier Mandrake distributions, when I was first discovering. I installed Mandrake 7.0 a few times over the years to play with, just for nostalgia.

    Ok, so I'm being silly and sentimental.
    I hate the taste of bile.

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    Seriously, even Mantiva would be better.
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    What happens now to all the gui drak tools?
    I know some of you will have fun with this, so I ain't going first!

    Mandrake is why I started using Linux in the first place. I hope the change goes well for them.
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    Disk Driva?
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    Well, I got nostalgic so I installed Mandrake 7.0 in vmware, and compiled a newer XFree86 so I could use it with the vmware virtual adapter. (640x480 16 colour VGA if not!)



    Good old KDE 1.x. This flies, too. I love this old distro.



    Now to build a kernel. I haven't built a Linux 2.2 kernel in a long time. (going to stick with that so I don't have to upgrade my toolchain and module utilities and stuff)
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    Actually, that looks pretty neat!
    I have an empty partition at the moment, but the oldest Mandrake I have is 8.0. Might just load it up for old times sake as well.
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    Mandriva ?
    * boredus looks for his Richard Simmons linux jpg.
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