I run a *lot* of servers and other systems with various Linux distros (it's my job - systems engineer) and I have one production machine running Mandrake/Mandriva. I'll never touch this operating system again, the underpinnings are really screwed up and overly complicated, worse than Debian used to be back in the day. It was the only option for this particular server at the time, and we regret ever giving in and accepting it.

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