“I used Mandrake Linux for years before switching to Fedora Core
and then to Ubuntu Linux last spring–around the same time
Mandrake, which is based in France, bought a Brazilian Linux
distributor called Conectiva and renamed itself Mandriva.“Mandriva Linux 2006, released last month, feels very much like
a natural evolution of earlier Mandrake releases–in both good and
bad ways. As I tested the PowerPack edition of Mandriva 2006, I was
disappointed to find many of the same rough edges that drove me
away from Mandrake still present in this new incarnation…”
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