You can download Mandrake if you have a high speed modem at
www.linuxiso.org. I have a cable modem at 512K and it took me about 7 to 9 hours to get all three disks. If you do not want a complete install, you can just download disk 1 and install it to try it out. This is what I did when I installed 8.1 but when I installed 8.2 I opted to install the whole package. I like the extra bells and whistles that are on disk two and three.
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