Mandriva Flash 2008 has been released. "Mandriva Flash 4GB provides a full-featured system - Mandriva Linux 2008 KDE- that requires no installation, on a bootable USB key. All you have to do is plug in the USB key, turn the PC on and the Mandriva Linux operating system is ready to use, with all you need for office work, Internet and multimedia tasks. System configuration, preferences and data are all saved on the key."
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Member since:2005-07-06
Flash *is* a USB key - it's not a download. You're buying the actual key, we mail it to you.
It's between a live CD and hard disk in speed, roughly, but closer to hard disk. A few very specific operations are a little faster due to the performance profile of flash memory.
For systems that can't boot from USB, it comes with an ISO you can write to a CD (mini CD or business card CD for convenience - just carry it in your wallet). Then you just boot from that CD with the Flash plugged in, and the Flash boots up.
There were several reviews of the previous version of the Flash - here's the first result for 'mandriva flash review' from Google:
http://www.linux.com/articles/114203
Member since:2006-09-26
...and another review was: http://beranger.org/index.php?article=2434
Member since:2005-07-06
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2005-06-29
I'd like to test it but I'll need to buy a USB key
Has some one tried it? How fast does it perform off a USB key? Is it as fast as on a regular HDD? I guess it won't work on old systems that don't boot off a USB key though...What's nice is that you have R/W access (which you don't on a live CD).