Star MandrakeMove First Impressions: The Human Interface
Linked by Daniel Allen on Sun 18th Jan 2004 21:16 UTC
Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris I want to start off by saying that MandrakeMove is an incredible distribution and I am going to focus on some rather particular points in this review. My hope is to make the community aware of some of the outstanding issues with running MandrakeMove and not to discredit the countless hours Mandrake employees spent on making such a polished product. We all want Linux to succeed and that can only be accomplished by continuing to test, report and ask why or why not? The lifecycle of linux is like an organism, it has to keep breathing to stay alive.
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for the record
by Dan Allen on Mon 19th Jan 2004 03:59 UTC

Just for the record, since I have received some critism on this article, I want to make a few statements.

First of all, I did not "steal" or "unfairly" obtain this version of MandrakeMove. I upgraded my membership to "silver" so that I could have the promised priviledge of downloading the usb-key version of this distribution. I have already purchased Mandrake 9.2 and was simply testing out MandrakeMove to see what it was all about and introduce the possiblity of using it at work (as a previous reviewer had done at school).

It is not unreasonable to think that other USB keys should work. Again, I don't even think that Mandrake should necessarily support them, but rather just list those reported by the community as causing problems. Sure, I purchased cheap hardware, but this was not an investment which was going to help me much, so I didn't want to pour a lot of money into it.

Finally, I wrote this review to detail what MandrakeMove could not do, I realize that what it does do is quite amazing. I am pushing the envelope and I would like to see where Mandrake can take it. I will tell you that non-linux users will be much more critical than I was. I understand this is a first release and for that I applaud Mandrake.