Going through some Old Linux Cd this was my first Linux - it came in a Magazine

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I looked at Mandrake when I first wanted to install Linux. But I think I was about 8 or 9 years old at the time, so I was way too inexperienced and we only had the family PC. If I had tried to install it I would have destroyed the computer. :laugh:

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I remember installing RedHat, Mandrake and even FreeBSD on an old IBM Aptiva in the early 2000's would have been roughly around 12-15

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I used Mandrake a few times. I thought that it was quite good. Started with Red Hat 7.0 and a dial-up modem. Those were the days! :p 

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On 25/05/2025 at 19:19, Mindovermaster said:

Weren't we all back then? :laugh:

The things that got us into trouble, got us jobs :)

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On 26/05/2025 at 04:57, Nik Louch said:

The things that got us into trouble, got us jobs :)

breaking and fixing my HP Pavilion back in the day definitely helped.

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To that end, back in the Win3.1 days, there was an app that was a replacement for ProgMan.exe, more like a dock at the bottom of the screen, I swear it was by HP but maybe not.  The PC still ran Windows, so you still had all your apps, but just a different launcher. I confused the hell out of my parents with that!

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