just spent the last few days rediscovering why I like Mandrake Linux and why I don't use it anymore. I downloaded the iso images for Mandrake 9.0 and burned a couple of CDs. About a half-hour later, I had Mandrake 9.0 up and running on my 1-GHz Athlon, based on the Asus A7M266 motherboard. The machine has an NVidia GeForce 3, Intel Ethernet Express Pro 100, Sound Blaster Live!, ATA100 disk drives and 512 MB of DDR RAM.