The idea behind Mandrake Move is simple, you have a bootable CD with Mandrake Move on and a USB flash drive to store your data then you can use any PC at your disposal to do your work. Its a nice idea but as I found out it doesn’t always work how you expected. Read More.
I was under the understanding that if you already own a usb drive, you could download it and use the disk. The article makes it sould that only the pay for version has this ability. Is this correct? And if so, how can mandrake make it not available for download under the gpl?
“how can mandrake make it not available for download under the gpl”
What section of the GPL requires Mandrake Move to be available for download?”
Odd that Mandrake Move has problems picking off hardware. Mandrake has worked great detecting my hardware since 8.0 anyway (currently Mandrake9.1 on a GA-7VAX mobo with USB 2.0, onboard VIA 8233 sound, onboard VIA NIC).
“Of course it doesnt work properly-its Linux.”
You meant to say:
“Of course it doesnt work properly FOR ME-its Linux,” otherwise one might have to believe that companies like Dell, HP, IBM, Novell, & the Department of Defense are backing a system which doesn’t work, which would be ludicrous, don’t you think?
thats retarded, i know so many people that dont have the intelligance span or ability to use linux or are just afraid of it so they say its bad. it may not be their thing but it is clearly a powerful OS
Stupid people need operating systems too. UNIX is not for everybody and I for one am glad that a few archaic interfaces are left to keep the morons out. It only appears complex and scary to them and is only a flaky, half-baked, and unreliable mess in their hands. If windows works great for them they obviously have not done much with it outside of it’s native apps without even trying to integrate or stretch the envelope. How do I know this? Because they think it somehow superior to the others so obviously they have no use for and never experienced nor could they appreciate the real power of a truly open os without limits.
We need windows, if it wasn’t there we’d have to write it or leave the millions of clueless lusers with ADD etc. out in the cold.
And it work well on different hardware. Absolutly nothing to do for configuring (sound, printer, 3D). Many cheap usb key are buggy so it work bad under linux (they often give a driver to circumvent the bug… under windows).
Don’t forget as for Discovery, the proprietary driver are include. So there is no mess to use 3D drivers.
An option to Mandrake Move is Knoppix. Knopppix does great hardware recognition, but is a bit slow (as with any CD based distro). If you have 512 of RAM you can load the whole CD to RAM and everything will load much faster. I got a free Knoppix CD from loadux.com
Cheers,
Mike
The download version actually WORKS with USB drives. It does not save configuration, but allows using a USB mass storage though.