Mandrake/Mandriva was my favorite distro for over 10 years.
My introduction to Linux came with Red Hat 4.2, it was very cool but my limited knowledge at the time made certain things difficult for me.
Next, I used Red Hat 5.0 and I liked that a lot but what really changed things for me was Mandrake 6.0. That distribution got me excited about digging into Linux and GNU to find out how things worked and how to customize things to my liking.
URPMI addresses so many of the issues with RPM that I was hooked. No more RPM dependency hell.
I finally switched from Mandriva to something else in 2009.
My introduction to Linux came with Red Hat 4.2, it was very cool but my limited knowledge at the time made certain things difficult for me.
Next, I used Red Hat 5.0 and I liked that a lot but what really changed things for me was Mandrake 6.0. That distribution got me excited about digging into Linux and GNU to find out how things worked and how to customize things to my liking.
URPMI addresses so many of the issues with RPM that I was hooked. No more RPM dependency hell.
I finally switched from Mandriva to something else in 2009.
It was great, in its day.