Has anybody tried Xandros OS?

Hugh Reilly hughreilly1-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Mon Nov 24 14:35:57 UTC 2003


Re: Xandros,

Xandros first release used KDE 2.3 when KDE itself was at the 3.0 level. I 
didn't really see any advantage in Xandros over, say, Mandrake with the 
latest KDE.



-Hugh
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>From: Paul Mora <paulmora-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>
>Reply-To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
>To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
>Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Has anybody tried Xandros OS?
>Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 22:44:13 -0500
>
>On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 15:48, jkls wrote:
> > I can't find many reviews of this on the net and
> > it is quite expensive. It's Canadian, stylish
> > and I can show my Mom how great it is if it will
> > really run MS Office. I want it!
> > Hoping for a Christmas bonus...
>
>Xandros is the re-incarnation of Corel Linux.  It's a very user-friendly
>version of Linux.  They are about to release version 2.0 of their
>desktop distribution.
>
>I've been using it on and off, and find it to be very slick.  They have
>gone to great lengths to make things easy to the novice user, someone
>who is not familiar with Unix, or Linux, but is familiar with a certain
>other windowing environment. :-)
>
>Xandros also includes Crossover's Office and Plugin products, so if you
>must run those Windows apps and browser plugins, you can do it.  Xandros
>is all Debian under the covers.
>
>This is the Linux distro your mother could use. :-)
>
>pm
>
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