The movie was great, but well, nevermind, I am just here to talk about a neat product we just released today.

Mandriva Flash is, basically, a 2GB USB key containing a Mandriva distribution which can be run live from this USB key. Of course, it saves the settings, system modifications, and home directories (in a 400MB loopback image), and also offers a 800MB share partition.

I will not make a speech about how great the product it, telling it is a name-brand USB key, designed by Dane-Elec, with a 5-year warranty, or that it is an extremily mobile product you can fit in a pocket, or possibly that it includes in a fast media the greatest Mandriva 2007.0 features, such as the top-notch 3D desktop stuff (well, not Metisse, but remember, it's not a 3D desktop). No, I will not give your this marketing kind of speech, it's not my style.

Technically, it is quite similar to the Mandriva One live system: it is a compressed loopback of the distribution created by my draklive tool, and mounted as root filesystem using unionfs. The main difference is that Mandriva Flash uses the USB key as writable filesystem, while the Mandriva One used the system RAM as temporary writable filesystem (losting modifications at shutdown).

Flash also comes with some extra engineering and QA, and includes the latest Mandriva 2007.0 updates.

In a nutshell, it's Mandriva 2007.0 sumed up in your pocket \o/

Ideal to take some vacations together with the cows in the wild country, without taking the laptop. I will use it this way, really, but you are free to give it more ambitious usages :-P