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At the time, I bought a boxed copy of 7.0 at Wal-Mart of all places. That was my first introduction to Linux. Mandrake was easy enough that I could fumble through and learned a ton in the process. Grateful for its existence and the fact that they had a retail version for someone without reliable Internet access at the time
Same. I still have my copy of Mandrake 7.2.
At the time I used Slackware and Red Hat which definitely required tweaking at least
xorg.confand more.