| Mandrake's Linux desktop goes mobile |
Aug. 26, 2004
 Mandrakesoft has teamed with French hardware maker LaCie in introducing a USB-powered mobile hard drive, according to an announcement today.
The 40GB hard drive attaches to a system's USB port, allowing users to use their PC as a Linux desktop, without modifying the host computer. The technique is similar to the way a "LiveCD" allows users to try Linux without installing, repartitioning or disturbing an existing OS configuration.
GlobeTrotter ships with Mandrake 10 and includes OpenOffice.org, PIM software including Kontact and Evolution, and development tools. The device includes thirty days of web support, and membership to online subsciptions of Mandrakeclub and Mandrakeonline for one month, according to the French software maker.
To connect the device to computers without USB-capabilities, a bootable MiniCD may be used instead, according to the product specification.
Since emerging from bankruptcy protection earlier this year, Mandrakesoft has introduced Mandrake PCs from French retailer Carrefour, low cost laptops with Mandrake preloaded from HP, and is the software shipped on an innovative new 4-user computer design from HP that targets developing countries.
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