MandrakeMove wins again.

My cousin, also working in the IT field as a consultant (more on the networking/hardware side) has been asking me for a copy of GNU/Linux to play with, so today I visited him with Mandrake 10 and MandrakeMove. We went to his lab area, and started a burnfest while talking about this, that and the other.

It completely skipped me to mention MandrakeMove's abilities. I suppose I take it for granted that people know what I know sometimes, but when he asked me, 'whats this?', suddenly I started talking about how it's a standalone CD that allows you to boot into GNU/Linux with KDE, and so forth. Part of the problem he has is that he's got dedicated machines for things (as do I), but he does want to play with GNU/Linux. And I never really even thought of MandrakeMove, for some reason. He had kept asking me about Mandrake 10.

So, immediately the machine was rebooted with the CD set as the boot device - and MandrakeMove did not disappoint. I talked him through the loading sequence and explained that it could be used to detect hardware problems - and it worked seamlessly. After a quick game of TuxRacer, he was really impressed with the speed off of the CD, and then I realized that his machine was on his network.

Konqueror. Google. Worked. Lovely. So he hit a few internet sites in Konqueror, and was smiling.

It's always good to see someone new try GNU/Linux and like it.