MANDRIVA 2007 PowerPack
Not many years ago, Linux users were pretty much computer geeks. The amount of software available was limited and most installs were from source code.
It was from this simple premise that Mandrake was born. Mandrake, now Mandriva simplified installs, made them almost effortless and was responsible for many new users coming to Linux.
I learned of the Mandrake Legions some years ago when I was in a “Big Box” store looking at their boxed Linux distributions. The sales clerk, a young man in his late teens ask if I had ever used “Mandrake,” I answered NO and it was as if I had slapped him in the face. He quickly told me that he and several of his friends were avid Mandrake users and that he belonged to a LUG where many of the members were Mandrake users and he proceeded to open up as if I needed the testimonial. I bought a copy!
Having done installs of SUSE and Red Hat, I found Mandrake to be quite simple to install, configure and use. I too became hooked.
Over the years several things have changed. During the past week, I installed Mandriva PowerPack 2007. The install is very straight forward.
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