mandrake

[jc at trillian.mit.edu (John Chambers)]

D. Eric Chadbourne wrote:
| http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/globetrotter
| neat huh?  wonder how well it works?

It looks really useful, if it works well. Unlike the CD distros, it's
a  R/W  disk,  so  you  could  save things from various systems (like
sample config files) and carry them to the next.  You  could  collect
all sorts of testing software on the disk.  You could update anything
on the disk at any time.  It sounds like a  really  useful  tool  for
someone doing installations and other support work.

It is a bit more expensive than a CD distro, of course.  But I'll bet
that they'll find a market.

I wonder how hard it would be to include  several  different  OSs  in
different partitions?  Maybe a FreeBSD distro.  Maybe even an XP with
all the security patches, if you could straighten out  the  licensing
problems  that  this  would obviously have.  If so, I can see support
people buying a lot of these.