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 ;))

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Boxed version vs. Download version

[DF5JT]

# The MandrakeMove Boxed Edition is now available at MandrakeStore.com. The Boxed Edition provides the MandrakeMove system, plus the capability to save configuration and personal data to a USB key, plus additional commercial software such as NVidia(R) drivers, Acrobat(R) ReaderTM, RealPlayerTM, FlashPlayerTM, and MandrakeMove documentation.

I call that a good reason to buy the boxed version. When travelling, this is the perfect way to have your office at hand with 99% of the Wintel-Boxes out there.

Before everyone and their dog mentions knoppix

[Anonymous Coward]

Remember that knoppix is still a geek orientated distro. It is based on debian, has hundreds of apps with confusing labels. What is a mc, qtparted, rosegarden for example. Also you need to enter a COMMAND LINE (evil, evil evil!) to enable the USB key on knoppix. Mandrake is a distro for the rest of us.

Re:I made my Mandrake move.

[FuzzyBad-Mofo]

Funny, I feel the same way about SuSE 8.0 which I ran for about a year. I never liked YAST or SuSE's buggy X11 config utility. Last year I moved to MDK 9.1 and couldn't be happier. Perhaps we each simply had bad luck with the version of the distributions we first used extensively, at any rate it's probably a mistake to judge a distro soley on the merits of a single version.

Without support for Winmodems...

[stankulp]

...most of the newbies will boot it once and forget it.

Once you can get on the 'Net with Linux, you're in business.

If you can't get on the 'Net, most people won't even bother with it.

Key Limitations

[danwiz]

Where do software updates and additions go? A 256Mb USB "key" isn't going to hold much, and I'd hate to have to re-install my "non-standard" software every time I switched machines. 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?

Examples - Open Office releases a newer version than what's on the CD (with a 300Mb footprint), or there's a browser secuity patch. Now what?

Seems like expansion may be limited.

Tough job

[sanctimonius hypocrt]

Mandrake may have the desktop experience to do this well, but the field is very competitive. With all the variants of knoppix out there, they need to stand out from a big crowd. Selling it with a USB key might help to differentiate it from the others, and of course there's urpmi.

Re:Great news!

[gaijin99]

Use Gentoo! Best distro I've ever used!

I use Gentoo myself, mainly to avoid Dependancy Hell, but it gets old waiting 10+ hours for KDE or any other massive program to compile. Frankly, the speed boost for a specific to me compile isn't really worth the hassle of having to wait for the compile...

OTOH, I have learned more about Linux since I tried Gentoo than I ever did while using Redhat or Mandrake. Which is the real reason I chose it. I needed something that would force me to learn how to use it better.