The short: if I were to install a semi minimalist mandrake 9.1 could I 
then install the apt-get utility?

The long: With the trobles (aside those in x... that will be anywhere) I 
have been having I am wondering if I could install Mandrake 9.1 (with 
the of so yummy built in wi-fi and laptop hibernation), strip out the 
fat (no, I do not need 5 shells, 4 office suites, 3 browser, 2 
webserver, and a partage in a pare tree), recompile a light kernel, 
install apt-get and have one powerful OS...
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Robert James Wultsch III
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