Has anybody tried Xandros OS?

[jkls]

A true newbie's story-pathetic but true:
The last time I used Mandrake and I couldn't get updates using the 
graphical tools that I knew of because they wouldn't go through my 
firewall. I had all the lower ports blocked. I was so tired of 
struggling with my firewall. I had spent like two months learning enough 
to set it up and the thought of "re-compiling the ftp client with 
passive support" just made me tired. I loved that system's interface but 
I couldn't get any security updates so I was a paranoid wreck.

If Xandros really could run MS Office then Mom and neighbours would have 
to whistle. Plus they're a Canajun company. I like stuff like that. But 
ease of use often means less features. Windows is one popular example. 
(Which is why I like to struggle with Linux from time to time-I mean who 
wouldn't want to know that the MBR is 512 bytes of which the top 66 are 
the partition table-including the two byte header-the power just makes 
you dizzy.)

I am also thinking about Gentoo. This looks very nice on the surface: 
great installation instructions, a package management system, nice 
screenshots and I have some limited experience with their excellent boot 
CD. It's also cheap/free.

Thanks for your opinion.

Hugh Reilly wrote:

> Re: Xandros,
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> 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.
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> -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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