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MandrakeMove Final Available for Download
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 ;))
It runs from a CD. It moves around with you.
Move, mobile. One live CD (as in, no installation, boot and run from the CD). Can also be used as a harmless intro to linux for windows users, without altering thier computer, or a lengthy install.
MandrakeMove is Mandrake Linux on a boot CD. That's right, it requires no hard drive. Everything is stored in RAM. That's about as simple as it gets.
...has been available for some time now.
(I wonder how that happened?)
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
I guess the "Move" part of the name means you can take your Mandrake with you everywhere you go, and start it on whichever system you find (provided it's fast enough for the GUI stuff). Your personal settings and data come along on your USB key.
We went through all these questions last month. You can use your own key, or none at all. Jeezus.
It is not "installing off a CD" it is runnng from a CD. This and a USB key (for customised settings) would be a great asset when running about investigating things, no invasive OS/system reinstall, just run-n-go!
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I played with one of the pre-release versions of this and it'd mount the key (commonly called a USB thumb or pen drive), and seemed to offer a option durring boot to read configuration from the key. So I don't see why the download final version wouldn't do it.
If that watch uses a standard USB Mass Storage interface, it should be well supported by any recent OS, including Linux.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
(and I live in Brussels as well)
I have used the 'member verison' with my own USB key (Sandisk adapter to SD card of 128 Mbyte) for a week or two now.
/Hedex
Works Ok but not perfect, first three install attemts destroyed the SD card's formatting, after having removed a USB printer (and reformatting the card), everything works fine.
Last week I visited a company without my laptop, and booted a PC (that Windows PC's person was on vacation) and could give a quick introduction to Eclipse which was running from the USB key and the Eclipse plugin I've written for them.
Works very nice, I'll definitely bring it with me the next time I'll go visit a company for demonstration purposes. (Still I'll bring my laptop as backup since it is not that robust every time at boot or shutdown...)
Have tried it on 5 completely different computers and the only one which did not work was a new Dell laptop with this broad display. It booted Ok, but then the display whent black... Works ok on my Asus laptop though...
It's perfect if your going to visit someone and need to lookup something on the net/have an hour to spare and aren't really allowed to use an account on a Win machine or know the login.
I moved from Redhat 8 (half a year), to SuSE 8.2 (three months) to Mandrake 9.2 DL Edition, which I've been quite happy with for the last month. Both SuSE and MDK are excellent to install and maintain, but SuSE started behaving a bit strange on me after a while (Scanning for new hardware on boot locked up, some random system freezes I never could find an answer to, etc). Could've been just me, but after using 10 minutes to replace SuSE with Mandrake, I was in love. (Click to select Norwegian keyboard, click to keep /home, click to keep Win2k partition, next, next, next, FINISHED!)
Only worries with MDK: Kernel source was not included on CDs, and I have not been able to stop urpmi from complaining about that "contrib" uses an invalid list file.
Apart from that, two thumbs up.
I shall go and tell the indestructible man that someone plans to murder him.
because ACPI is not as standard as it should be
I'm buying Mandrake 9.2 I use Redhat, Debian, and OpenBSD mainly but I tried Mandrake 9.1 on my laptop and replaced Redhat w/ it. urpmi surprised me (almost as good as apt) and the overall speed is noticeably better than Redhat. Combine this w/ the excellent packages from texstar and plf and I'm very happy.
2. Does it have, out-of-the-box, screen fonts that don't suck, i.e., that are as good as Windows fonts circa 1995?
Microsoft was kind enough to make the core of their fonts available to the Linux community though they probably won't ever release something licensed like that again once they found out how we were using it.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/
Arial, Times, Courier, Comic etc. A dozen of the ones you expect to be there.
Most Linux distros will work just fine with any TTF library - like the ones you would normally find in you C:\WINNT\Fonts directory. If you purchased a font, you should be able to use it on Linux as well as whatever else you have permission to use it on.
+++ UGUCAUCGUAUUUCU
NTFS is generally kernel stuff. Writing is, at least in 2.4, NOT recommended. The Linux-NTFS people say that the risk of failure is.. big.
But for 2.6 kernels, there's another world. The "new" NTFS drivers are better, and reads perfectly well. Quoting the Linux-NTFS website: The new driver, introduced in 2.5.11, has some write code, but it's very limited. The driver can overwrite existing files, but it cannot change the length, add new or delete existing files.
All in all, NTFS isn't reliable except for reading in 2.6 kernels. These NTFS drivers are in the kernel tree.
A good FAQ is at this place
FAT sucks, but works brilliantly for almost nothing. Like temp files.
If you're lucky, the Mandrake folks gave you the availability to write temp files to the USB key (boxed Mandrake Move). I don't know, though.
While it's been awhile since I've worked with Mandrake, and I have never worked with Fedora, I have worked quite a bit with RedHat. My advice depends on what you want to do with the OS. If you are wanting a GNU/Linux OS with all the whiz-bang autoconfigure tools you could ever hope for, use Mandrake. If you want something that is more likely to include the latest (which does not neccessarily mean greatest) beta version of $SOFTWARE, use Fedora.
If on the other hand, you are predominantly interested in running a stable OS without a lot of layers of abstraction, choose Slackware. RedHat/Fedora is too unstable (I would say the same about Mandrake IMO) and Mandrake is too complicated. Sure you have the latest version of KOffice, but really, what does it do for you that the previous stable version didn't? Sure you have all these whiz-bang autoconfigure tools and rarely need to go to the commandline, but what are you really learning, and what performance are you sacrificing to get that? Slackware offers the latest stable versions of most all the software you need (being a thin distro it doesn't include everything under the sun like SuSE and Mandrake), typically runs as fast as if not faster than all the other major distros out there, and rarely ever gives you problems. The learning curve is albeit higher than other distros, and Slackware users are perhaps justifiably titled elitest at times, but there are good reasons for that. It takes a certain dedication to learning Slackware, because it doesn't bother with needless gui config tools, with bloated SYS-V init, and similar pieces of software that tend to offer little and take a lot, but the rewards are worth it.
Slackware, what else when it must be secure, stable, and easy?
As it is based on the last stable version of Mandrake, 9.2, it is not. The next version that is now in development is alredy using 2.6, and that means that both the next Mandrake and MandrakeMove release will be 2.6.
From what i read on the website, it is basically the same as Mandrake 9.2, which has kernel 2.4.22 and Linux 2.6.0pre kernel provided in contribs.
Since this is a static cd-rom system, i think it is safe to say the kernel will be 2.4.22 and NOT 2.6.
I think this is a good thing, 2.6 is out only fairly recently, while 2.4.22 has proven itself to be extremely stable. Once you have burned the cd, its kinda hard to install an update, so going for stability doesn't seem that weird to me.
NVidia(R) drivers, Acrobat(R) ReaderTM, RealPlayerTM, FlashPlayerTM
This is all stuff which should be FREE. The addition of a usb drive is just a gimmick. Configuration files shouldn't require that much space. A floppy drive should suffice. What is the point of NVidia drivers if you can't add a half decent 3d game in the cd. You can't really swap cd's either because those Live distributions take absolute control of your cd drive. You can't remove the disc even if u wanted to. The pri
"Also, The product specs mention "no risk to existing data on hard drives". Does that mean no hard-drive access or no hard-drive partitioning?"
Probably something like knoppix - it mounts HDs read-only by default, and won't write a damn thing, or let anything else write, unless you use a simple thingy to remount it R/W
There is a knoppix remastering called DamnSmallLinux - Designed to run on small CDs, but can be modified to boot from a USB key! :) Oh, yeah, and it's 50 MB! :) How's that for light and portable?
The distro runs FluxBox as the WM, it has a browser, email client, word processor, file mananger, instant messenger, picture viewer, image editing, spreadsheet and a lot more
Any technology distinguishable from magic, is insufficiently advanced.
Ethernet problems; it failed to recognize my Ethernet controller, a Broadcom 440x chip built into my motherboard.
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Yes, I had these problems with the invalid file list as well. They disappeared after choosing a different mirror. Don't know why though. Configure your mirrors for urpmi here: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/
I am extremely happy with Mandrake 9.2. Except some minor sound problems everything else worked out of the box
I agree. I waited for the Mandrake 9.2 ISO's to become publically available before I decided to check out Mandrake 9.2. I installed it on my wife's computer and after about a week, I was "sold". I ordered the Power Pack DVD from MandrakeStore.com and have been very happy with my purchase.
I installed it on my machine on another hard-drive (was using Fedora Core 1 prior) and once I got all my data copied over from Fedora, I was using Mandrake exclusively there on out. I kept my Fedora install around for 2 or 3 weeks (just in case) but I finally ended up formatting that drive a few days ago so I could use the space for storage. On this machine (and only this machine) the default kernels seem to have something included that causes my computer to hard lock after a seemingly random amount of time. This would definitely be a show stopper for a newbie. But I prefer to compile my own kernel anwyway (and with the announcement of the memory bug in the pre 2.4.24 kernels), compiling your own kernel becomes a really good idea. My custom kernel has been perfectly stable.
I'm able to do everything I want to do with a computer. My current browser of choice is Galeon, though there is a lot to like about Mozilla Firebird. But Galeon has better Gnome integration in my opinion.
Gaim does all I need it to do for Instant Messaging.
I generally prefer the likes of light-weight players like XMMS for basic music listening, but lately (uhh..basically starting today) I'm really starting to appreciate RhythmBox. It just makes it real easy to find and sort songs instead of going through the directory hierarchy with your file manager. Now if RhythmBox would just get some integration with various portable digital music players (iPod for me - but I'd like to see plugins for as many as possible), that would be truly great. GTKpod works for syncing with iPod, but I don't like maintaining two completely different music databases. I'm really starting to like the rating system. So simple, but so useful.
Evolution is just more than I need in an e-mail client so I have been using Thunderbird. I'm happy with it, it works. But I think it could be improved (and I'm sure it will be, it's only version 0.4).
I'm finding that Gimp is kind of hard to get use to. It's kind of awkward in my opinion but I am learning more about it all the time. Like Photoshop though, it's just way more than I need. I'd like to find a high quality, good looking Gnome/GTK Image Editor that can do all of the basic things like resizing, cropping, rotation, etc...
I've been using Open Office for a while and I'm pretty happy with it. But I'd like to see better API? integration. (Not sure if API is the right term.) But basically where OO fits in better with the Gnome HIG. OO just looks really out of place on my system. But it works, and works well and that's the most important thing to me. I'm confident the aesthetics will catch up eventually.
Between Totem and GXine, I'm able to view every video file format I've ran into. And the playback is perfectly smooth. I use to have a real issue with video playback under Linux.
I also installed my Mandrake 9.2 DVD on my Laptop (Sony Vaio PCG-FX140) and have been very happy with it. The only problem I've had on the laptop has been with the power management stuff not working. For some people that would probably be a show stopper but for my uses it isn't really an issue. And I could probably resolve it if I took the time to figure it out. All of my hardware works "out of the box". (The onboard modem may or may not work. I'm not sure, I've never used it whether using Linux or Windows.)
I still have the download version on my wife's machine and she has been using it without any complaints ever since I installed it. She surfs the web (Galeon), checks her e-mail (Thunderbird), enjoys all the little dumb games that come w
That's not what Mandrake means for this company.
There's an old comic that was popular in the US and in France called Mandrake the Magician. Hence the top hat with the magic wand, the star logo, etc. They got in some trouble with the publisher of that comic a few years ago, not sure what the result was but it didn't hurt them too much. You may have noticed their logo changed significantly from 1999 to now, I think the lawsuit and not corporate refreshening had something to do with that.
A true classic and a standard among comic strips, Mandrake the Magician has been mystifying readers since 1934!
Mandrake the Magician was created by Lee Falk during the Great Depression, a time in our nation's history when adventurous comic strips became popular for their morale-building appeal.
The dapper, mustached magician remains one of the most famous characters in the comic strip medium, his adventures appearing in newspapers worldwide. Mandrake uses his legendary powers of hypnotism and illusion to combat crime, and has worked his debonair magic to find a place in the hearts of comic strip fans everywhere.
Many comic strips and comic books throughout the history of the medium have starred mystics and magicians. Over the years, characters such as Merzah the Mystic, Sargon the Sorcerer and Zanzibar the Magician have worked their magic, but none have displayed the longevity of the Mandrake the Magician comic strip.
Mandrake is also the first comic strip with a racially integrated cast of crime-fighters. Mandrake's partner in adventure is the gigantic Lothar, and the two of them have been fighting evildoers for decades! Mandrake is also aided by his girlfriend, the lovely and exotic Princess Narda.
Falk originally drew the Mandrake strip, but soon turned the job over to artist Phil Davis, who illustrated the silken illusionist's doings for more than 30 years. When Davis passed away, Falk recruited current Mandrake artist Fred Fredericks.
Lee Falk passed away in March of 1999, but his legacy lives on with Mandrake the Magician.