<div dir="auto">Mandrake was really polished towards the user. Gui administration tools and what not. I was using it until last Mandriva died.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 20:46 William Bagwell via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tuesday, October 28, 2025 07:44:19 PM William Wylde via Ale wrote:<br>
> Is Mandrake a fork of another distro, or is it it's own vision and version<br>
> of Linux?<br>
<br>
Forked from original Redhat 5 (before Fedora and REL) and started with that <br>
version number. I started with Mandrake 8. Boxed set that was about a year <br>
old when it 'fell' in my lap. Relative worked at Comp USA... Later merged <br>
with Conectiva and changed its name to Mandriva. Law suit with a cartoon <br>
Mandrake contributed to the name change. Later died everywhere except Russia <br>
and Brazil spawning Open Mandriva, Mageia and PCLinux OS. Possibly others?<br>
<br>
Been a long run, but if I'm going to use Comfy have to say goodbye to my GUI <br>
tools :-( <br>
<br>
BTW now have a working Comfy UI with SDXL on my new build. Also a longish <br>
run, started buying up parts three years ago before I retired. <br>
-- <br>
William Bagwell<br>
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