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MandrakeMove Bootable Linux CD Announced
joestar writes "MandrakeSoft just announced the release of the MandrakeMove release candidate, a special desktop version of the Mandrake Linux distribution that boots live from the CD and uses a USB key (included in the retail version) to automatically store personal data. It looks a bit like Knoppix, but comes with more features, such as the capability to eject the MandrakeMove CD-ROM during its use, in order to read audio or video files from another CD! The download release candidate is available here."
I must assume that USB Key means thumbdrive, although I couldn't find any reference on the linked site indicating what size this might be..
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
Is already in knoppix, check out the "cheat-codes" file, its a boot param which obviously isnt enabled by default so knoppix can run on systems with low memory
Gnome wasnt built in a day.
At the splashscreen:knoppix toram
When the source is open, the possibilities are endless.
think it'd be useful to know the price (obviously for the USB key) and size of the key. and perhapse a tentative release. sure, its RC1, but the final could be in a while
Why not just follow links to the Mandrake Store? The price is $59.90 and it includes a 128MB USB 2.0 key.
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Not anymore since LG fixed their buggy and so-called ATAPI drives.
...or you could have no harddrive, and boot Linux from the network via a remote desktop. Means that they can do what they will, and nothing to mess up. This works fine also. I run Windows 2000 and Photoshop via Citrix on the said Linux system no problems. My pc at work is a P166 with a tiny 32MB RAM. Everything is done on the server. Just can't do animations or play games. It's fine for academic/office work though.
CD-Rs/CD-RWs were not affected by the FLUSH_CACHE bug, only the CD-Roms were. I think it even says so on the LG site.
I just installed Mepis on my laptop last night -- a Debian derived Live CD that has the ability to install direct from the Live CD. Very slick.
The SuSE 9.0 Live CD didn't recognize the wireless LAN card on my desktop, so that didn't get anywhere.
Mepis was the first Live CD that I could effectively use for work, and not just a rescue CD or quick test. I used various tools for hours on the laptop (450 MHz P3, 328 Mb RAM) and it just worked.
Live CDs are the way to go.
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Basically I'd say anything that doesnt require drivers (and even some stuff that does), should work like snap.
I loaded knoppix the other day and spent a good 5 minutes trying to figure out if and how it is possible to mount my usb memory stick (the manual promises it works on w2k/xp, but w98 needs drivers).
While I was trying to figure out if I could somehow mount it, I didnt notice nice knoppix had already put an icon for me on the desktop. Doh!
Okay, I'm an idiot. I found the torrent link from the mirrors page.
Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly.
Go To: us.lgservice.com and go to Product support, then Device driver, CD-ROM and "Emergency download for Physical Dead Drive from Mandrake Linux 9.2". So you're drive isn't really dead.
Also, by going to LG's site, you can get firmware updates to fix the problem.
And finally...I'm sure Mandrake fixed this problem in newer kernels, as did the Gentoo team for their kernel.
Who is this Anonymous Coward character, how does he post so much, and why is he always such a whore?
Gentoo have a Gnome/KDE liveCD for PowerPC.
It's not the best-designed web page, but it's mentioned on Mandrake's home page - it's in the news section towards the right (but has been pushed down a little due to more recent news).
It's also on Mandrake's errata page, this time a little more prominently.
Cloop (compressed loopback filesystem) used in many liveCDs is quite inefficient in the way it constantly re-reads the CD. It doesn't cache very much information and throws a lot of the data it does read and decompress away before it reaches the filesystem. This is because cloop does not understand the filesystem it is compressing, and therefore cannot use any clever caching strategies.
:-)
LiveCDs using squashfs as the compressed filesystem are much faster. Try dynebolic.org... As the writer of squashfs I am however a bit biased
I currently try 9.2 : Xine has been replaced by Totem (which uses a xine engine). To play encrypted DVDs I just added libdvdcss from plf. This is becoming very easy, I remember I had a few things to find/download/install to get xine to play encrypted DVDs on Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1. And getting it to correctly handle DVD menus was not so simple either, while now totem does well out of the box.
One of those Europeans...
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the MandrakeMove Boxed Edition provides the ability to save configuration and personal data to a USB key.
So this release canidate cannot save to the USB key, and it looks like a download version may never do that, since they emphasise that it's the Boxed Edition that does that. Bummer.
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