OSNews: MandrakeMove First Impressions: The Human Interface

“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.

“After convincing the security officer at my work to allow me to
use a bootable live version of Linux to save me from Windows hell
(nevermind that he doesn’t realize the significance of this
agreement, but so much the better), I couldn’t wait to update my
MandrakeClub subscription and start leeching the USB-key version of
MandrakeMove. After patiently waiting for bittorrent to scour the
network for a few willing peers, downloading at a mere 5K/s, I had
a complete ISO ready to burn. Just because I didn’t want to have to
share any of the 128MB of space with my current USB flash drive and
was too excited to wait for another one to come via snail mail, I
did what any impatient male would do. I cruised over to CompUSA and
picked up the cheapest 128MB money can by, a SanDisk Cruzer Mini
128MB USB flash drive. I cleared my schedule and prepared for a
swim…”

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