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MandrakeMove Final Available for Download

Posted by timothy on from the embarrassment-of-riches dept.

hendridm writes "According to the Mandrake Linux web page, 'MandrakeMove is available for download - Everything for Office, Multimedia and Internet on a single live CD: the final version of MandrakeMove Download Edition is now publicly available for download. Make your Windows-friends discover how powerful and friendly Mandrake Linux is: this couldn't be easier than with MandrakeMove!' Go team." (We mentioned this version of Mandrake before; of course, if you download, you don't get a memory key with the deal ;))

5 of 291 comments (clear)

  1. Good for newbies by ParadoxicalPostulate · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Good for newbies who are daunted by the task of having to sift through different versions, products, platforms, etc.

    Now all we have to do is start up a mailbox-spamming service. Take hints from AOL?

  2. 10 reasons why I dont like MandrakeMove by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    1. You can not play games on it.
    2. It cannot be used by my grandma.
    3. It lacks a GUI of any note.
    4. There is no support available for it.
    5. It is an assortment of fragmented OSes.
    6. It cannot be run on the x86 platform.
    7. You have to compile everything and know C.
    8. Support for the latest hardware is always poor.
    9. It is incompatiable with GNU/Linux.
    10.It is dying.

  3. User Acceptance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    As a chief engineer at a major software company(which shall remain unnamed), I can tell you with all confidence that Mandrake will never achieve the ubiquity among non-techies that Windows has and will continue to have. It's a thousand times easier to use software pioneered by a corporation which standardizes the entire industry. There are walls of books about using the advanced capabilities of microsoft products, without an impossible(due to the fragmented nature of the open-source scene) comprehensive "Idiot's guide to Linux," and the ability to ask a friend "How does this work?" without him telling you he only knows 3 distros, the average joe will find these applications useless.
    Myself, I think that Windows versions of open source software is where it's at. Look at how much more powerful Gimp is than Photoshop, and how much more widely accepted Sendmail is than Outlook.

  4. 11 reasons why you are Wrong by SoSueMe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1. Which Games
    2. If "Grandma" can use Windows, she can use this
    3. Wrong
    4. Wrong Wrong
    5. Wrong Wrong Wrong
    6. Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong
    7. Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong
    8. Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong
    9. Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong
    10. Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong

    11.You are a slimy troll

  5. Re:Key Limitations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, there's a fix for that, it's called actually installing the OS to your hard drive.

    Obviously the kind of expandability you are talking about falls outside the scope of this product. Yes, it has limitations.