Linked by Daniel Allen on Sun 18th Jan 2004 21:16 UTC
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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As an Aussie I'll just say "She'll be right, Mate" to all comments about being upside down etc. before I start (mainly because I'm a day ahead of youall anyway).
I've been using Mandrake Move since a couple of days after it became available, and I think it's way ahead of any other OS on the market for the ultimate portable desktop (the concept makes Windows look old-fashioned, doesn't it?) there's a couple of extra programs I'd like but I can always boot in Mepis or Knoppix for them if I really need to.
1. Totally Portable email
My mail server is running IMP using IMAP so no matter where I am I can access all my mail folders etc. via webmail, and if I'm on the home/office network KMail is setup for IMAP and works fine.
2. Portable documents
I setup a directory called shared in my Mankrake 9.2 home directory and a script to copy updated docs back and forth to a shared directory on the USB key.
More Memory
If your hard drive has a Linux swap partition Mandrake Move will use it and give you more headroom.
Folding
I have a Folding directory on the USB key and the Move folds quietly in the background whlie I work.
USB keys
I've found that every USB key that says it works with Linux works fine - and if the docs for the key don't say that it works with Linux - it doesn't. Why should Mandrake need to test all USB keys when the manufacturers tell us what works?