Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage?

rbowman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:51:35 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote:

> But Mandriva seems to have a "curse" on it.  IIRC, ages ago the distro
> it descended from, Mandrake, had an issue that broke some hardware.  I
> forgot the exact problem but it caused many people to migrate to another
> distro.

I had Mandrake on one box and don't recall having any problems with it. It 
was a long time ago but iirc it was a shrink wrapped box featuring a 
penguin with a magic wand. That killed any defense when Hearst sued. 

Compared to installing Slackware from a couple of boxes of floppies it was 
polished.
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