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MandrakeMove 2 And Mandrakesoft Profit Reports
Mad_Rain writes "Two new developments in the Mandrake Linux camp: For the beta-testers and live-cd crowd, MandrakeMove 2 (which is based on Mandrake 10) is undergoing beta testing. 2.6 Kernel anyone? Financially, Mandrake seems to be improving, as they cite a report from EuroLand Finance about how they compete with Red Hat or SUSE, at least in the marketplace (as opposed to on the desktop)."
I've never used MandrakeMove so I don't know how it's done but I know that you can store your /home partition(which is where your setting are kept well most of them anyway) on a USB keychain with Knoppix.
The link in the parent wasn't too clear on what MandrakeMove actually was, so here is a different link about it that describes what it is a little better (the original link is to the download page).
I was in the park the other day wondering why frisbees get bigger and bigger the closer they get - and then it hit me.
Knoppix will store your config info on a USB drive, a hard drive, a zip drive, etc... and all from a GUI.
It's nice that Mandrake will as well, but Knoppix has been doing this for a while.
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If you buy it from Mandrake it's something like $55 and thats the power pack which has some propietary software. My best advice would be to but from almostfreelinux.com, It's $8.95 for 4 CDs with free shipping. I think it's a good way of getting it because it's a reasonable price and it dosen't take too long. I',m not sure about the Live Cd though..
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Mac and other slim laptops all offer external floppy or even internal ones. Mac hardware doesn't exactly follow a standard .. but rather make up the standard since Mac is proprietary platform who likes to think outside the box with label that says, "You'd shut up and use it if you know what's good for ya." Slim laptops are different story... most of their design is to fit two hands in one glove, certainly a floppy would be an accessory with hefty price tag. With that in mind, I doubt that both are design to meet anywhere near "de facto".
"Don't let fools fool you. They are the clever ones."
about MandrakeMove is the fact that it can automatically store your personal data on a USB keychain. Not that SuSE Live, Knoppix, etc. cannot, but MdkMove makes it so damned easy to make a *truly* portable personal desktop system.
Kudos, Mandrake, for another great product.
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I hope they are showing a profit!
I joined their mandrake club to download the iso's and give them a little support. They charged my credit card $6600.00 for a standard membership. They did not answer their phones. I had to dispute the charges through my credit card company. In their defense they did reverse the charges a few days later. But boy was I worried for a few days!
Mandrake Move creates 2 things on the USB Key. A folder named after the user you created on first boot (AKA: home directory) and a "dotfolder" hidden directory which contains your each computers individual setup. The latter of the two I find quite interesting. It appears that MandrakeMove has some sort of hardware hashing algorithm that allows it to come up with a unique ID for each computer that it is used in. When I use it on my laptop all of the hardware configurations for my laptop are used (resolution, printer, etc...) When I use it at work all of the configurations form my work computer are used. (NVidia drivers and all) I found that to be an outstanding feature that goes above and beyond most bootable distro's use of USB keys. As for the Home directory, it works as one might expect. All desktop and program configurations as well as personal files are stored there. When I play Chromium at work (...shhhh) the last level completed is stored, so when I go home I can start at my last completed level. Mail settings are saved, desktop preferences.... the whole works. It really feels like a full blown desktop moving with you.
You didn't pay for Mandrake, so your "Mandrake charges 66 per year" argument is completely irrelevant. If you can't download it, then you can't install it, so you obviously don't know if it works, or not. If you're having problems with Mandrake, read the friendly web, or drop in at Linux Questions.org. If you actually want any help, send me a private message over in the Linux Questions.org forums; my user name is "Brian of Gep", without the quotes.
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Granted, my test is disk-related... I use both Knoppix and MM to run badblocks on drives before I install their final OS. But, on the same hardware, Mandrake Move will run 'badblocks -svw /dev/hda' to completion (4 write/read passes with different patterns) in less time than the first pass in Knoppix 3.3 or 3.4. That's a significant time savings when you're checking 8 250GB drives for a RAID array!
A1) http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/range
Pretty simple and standard linkage really.
A2) Its free if you dload it ! What else do you need to know ? Or just join the damn club !
A3) Where do you have to _promise_ anything ?
Before downloading our products, we ask for your support by joining the Mandrakelinux Users Club.(my bold)
You came, you saw, you left, bereft ! Shame.