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MandrakeMove 2 And Mandrakesoft Profit Reports

Posted by timothy on from the value-added-adds-value dept.

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)."

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  1. Re:MandrakeMove by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. What is MandrakeMove you ask? by riptide_dot · · Score: 5, Informative

    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).

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  3. Re:MandrakeMove by jarich · · Score: 5, Informative
    What are you talking about?

    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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  4. Re:MandrakeMove by marsonist · · Score: 5, Informative
    I wrote a review of mandrake move at linuxquestions.org and here is a snippit that explains how the mandrake usb configs differ from knoppix et al... MandrakeMove points your FSTAB point /home to your USB key. All files are written directly to the USB keys FAT filesystem. I find this great because it is possible to easily view and access all home directory files from any other computer. Other bootable distros like to create .img files which 1) are difficult to view on other computers and 2) force you to predict the size of your home directory.... use to little and you haven't enough space, use too much and the you eat space from the rest of the USB key.

    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.