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Mandrake has been renamed Mandriva and is alive and quite well under the new breastle, if you want to try an updated version of the distro you had previously used. (If I understand correctly, there was a decades-stale comic book magician named "Mandrake", and the comic book company forced the software company to change name. There are too many lawyers on this planet.)

The web site is at www.mandriva.com. You might find the Mandriva Club web site at mandrivaclub.com useful. Newsgroups alt.os.linux.mandrake and alt.os.linux.mandriva are more focused on MandrX issues. The former one is on its way out, with the crowd migrating to the latter one.

Other responders have suggested Fedora Core. There is one potential disadvantage in the way Fedora handles security updates. They switch to the next complete version from the upstream developers. (More production-oriented distributions back-patch the security fixes into the upstream version that came with the distribution release.) With Fedora, a minor security update could force you to overhaul your working methods and any scripts you have that are sensitive to the change in main versions of the affected package(s).

-- Robert Riches (Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)