Mandrake 10 was my first ever Linux distro, seemed pretty good to me at the time (though I spent far more time playing Frozen Bubble than learning Linux!).<p>As for what happened to Mandrake, Mandrake became Mandriva after merging with Conectiva Linux, then after some money issues the core Mandriva developers created a fork of Mandriva called Mageia.<p>Mageia is still in active development, version 5 was released in June 2015:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mageia.org&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mageia.org&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;</a>