[ale] SemiOT: Local AI machine was musicians colaboration software.

[Boris Borisov]

Mandrake was really polished towards the user. Gui administration tools and
what not. I was using it until last Mandriva died.

On Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 20:46 William Bagwell via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday, October 28, 2025 07:44:19 PM William Wylde via Ale wrote:
> > Is Mandrake a fork of another distro, or is it it's own vision and
> version
> > of Linux?
>
> Forked from original Redhat 5 (before Fedora and REL) and started with
> that
> version number. I started with Mandrake 8. Boxed set that was about a year
> old when it 'fell' in my lap. Relative worked at Comp USA... Later merged
> with Conectiva and changed its name to Mandriva. Law suit with a cartoon
> Mandrake contributed to the name change. Later died everywhere except
> Russia
> and Brazil spawning Open Mandriva, Mageia and PCLinux OS. Possibly others?
>
> Been a long run, but if I'm going to use Comfy have to say goodbye to my
> GUI
> tools :-(
>
> BTW now have a working Comfy UI with SDXL on my new build. Also a longish
> run, started buying up parts three years ago before I retired.
> --
> William Bagwell
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