Hello from form former Mandrake user
Posted: Mar 30th, '20, 13:33
After finding out that Mandrake had a worthy successor that acted the same but updated for the 21st century, there was only one thing left to do. I downloaded it and put it on my HP Pavilion 23 all in one PC after I put a new hard drive into it. I ran Linux Mint on it with the other older hard drive, but there was a time for a change. I still have Mint on my laptop where it will remain happy. I had heard of Mandriva, but it was for profit and just didn't have the old Mandrake vibe like this one does. Mandrake was the very first Linux distro that I ever installed or used, ah the nostalgia...
One oddity, there are 2 root passwords. One is for unlocking access to your hard drive when you log on @ the other is the system admin password that we all know and love. Despite being password protected, the hard drive appears not to be encrypted and if there's a LUKs partition, its not showing up as such. Nevertheless, everything works. Even the web camera over the screen works. The microphone is a little bit glitchy and might need a driver to sound better. Clearing up whether or not it can do LUKs encryption and if so how would be a nice bonus, but not strictly necessary.
One oddity, there are 2 root passwords. One is for unlocking access to your hard drive when you log on @ the other is the system admin password that we all know and love. Despite being password protected, the hard drive appears not to be encrypted and if there's a LUKs partition, its not showing up as such. Nevertheless, everything works. Even the web camera over the screen works. The microphone is a little bit glitchy and might need a driver to sound better. Clearing up whether or not it can do LUKs encryption and if so how would be a nice bonus, but not strictly necessary.