[prmoustache]

I think we'd have to dig old isos to check but livecds were all the rage in that era.

Knoppix kind of led the way in 2000 so it is not surprising that Mandrake didn't have one yet but 5 years later it was already much more common. Some had separate isos for live or install though.

What Mandrake/Mandriva fell massively was in the branding department. All that mage related imagery made it look like a product for young kids and I am pretty sure that distro wasn't really taken seriously for this very reason.

[necovek]

Are you suggesting embraced naked people to symbolise "ubuntu" was what tipped the scales in favour of Ubuntu? :)