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I was the first (or second depend of the point of view) employee of Mandriva back in 1999, quite a journey since then. Sad to see them gone

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I used to work at Conectiva in 1999 and I remember to look at Mandrake/Mandriva spec files, I did remember your contributions (also from Pablo). Good old days. Later both companies get merged. Respect.

Good times. Conectiva 6.1 was my first contact with Linux, after a workshop in UFMG. I was a kid back then and got completely hooked by that "grown up thing".

Then I spent too many sleepless nights trying to patch the Kernel to work in my cheap PC and its PC Chips motherboard with an integrated WinModem.

And that headache got me every single job I ever had after that =D

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