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I think it was Mandrake Linux for me.
It no longer exists though. ...I guess I'm old.
v6,1 here some 24 odd years ago
Wow, me too. I was expecting to have to create a post for it, didn't think anyone would have started there.
After the Mandrake merge with Conectiva - what an awesome distro that was before SuSE beat it to death with UnitedLinux shenanigans! - and the mandriva progression, it still lives on as either Mageia or OpenMandriva; but my favourite of its children is the PCLinuxOS offshoot of Mandrake.