Mandrake 6.0 in 1998. The kernel was still 2.2, and KDE 1.1.1.

Bravo 👏

It’s also self-hosted, which is great. You’re not beholden to yet another cloud service. The other players of your group just connect to your server with their web browsers, so no extra licensing required for them.

If you don’t want to, or can’t self-host, there is The Forge, which offers a hosted Foundry service, but I don’t know what the costs are as I’ve never used it.

Mandrake 6.0 was my first distro in '98-'99. Mandrake hasn’t existed for a long time now; I have no idea if you can still find an old iso of it. It used KDE 1.1.1 as it’s DE, and to this day, KDE has remained my preferred DE.

It’s a joke. It’s a reference to Life of Brian, a Monty Python movie.