I moved over to Mandrake after Yggdrasil bit the dust (with a short Debian stint in between) and ran it as my main OS for years .. but tried Ubuntu one fateful day and haven't used anything but Ubuntu since.
So its a sad day to see Mandriva leave the scene .. they were doing really good and necessary things for us Linux devotees in the early days, and they deserve their place in the Linux Distro War history books. Pouring one out for you today, fella's ..
ah Yggdrasil! I used to get the full updates as a data CD (with fun cover art) stuck between the tech books of my local University's bookstore; because the download over dialup would've been prohibitive. ok... next nostalgic old fart can top that with leased Darpa 10Base2 lines.
Heh .. I remember the first time I booted Ygdrassil .. it came with a floppy, and a CD. Man that was a great adventure, waiting 20 minutes on my 386-16megs for X to load. My, how far we've come .. good times, eh?
Having to fear borking your monitor by setting the wrong hz is not something I miss. The fantastic feeling when stuff actually worked is something else though. I feel I have gotten spoiled.
Just now I had to spend 10 minutes fixing the system tray icon of pidgin under kde5. No satisfaction when it worked, just annoyance.
So its a sad day to see Mandriva leave the scene .. they were doing really good and necessary things for us Linux devotees in the early days, and they deserve their place in the Linux Distro War history books. Pouring one out for you today, fella's ..