[oclug] Xandros.

[Kevin MacPherson]

Justin,

Thanks for the good review.
I personally am a Xandros Advocate but most people would call me biased.
...pause for reaction...

I've managed to move my wife who is very windows centric to Xandros with
no complaints except the solitaire does not look the same.

Kevin

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 15:50, Justin Wheeler wrote:
>  	Since I first signed onto this list, I've seen a large number of 
> people advocating Fedora's use.  Personally, as I've alluded to before, I 
> don't, and never have used it.
> 
>  	I'm curious though, if anyone on this list is an advocate of 
> Xandros.  I know it's a local company, and maybe plugging a local company 
> might seem like a bit of a conflict of interest based on who the 
> statements are coming from; still, I find that it's the easiest distro for 
> a linux 'newbie' to use.
> 
>  	I have put Xandros on my girlfriend's computer, as well as on my 
> laptop (since both her and I use it), and she had no problem at all 
> getting it working to her needs.  Making it support my wireless NICs was a 
> bit of a pain, but that's likely not a distro problem, since the cards are 
> cheap junk, and not supported (well) by Linux in the first place.
> 
>  	If someone new comes along and says, "hey, what's this linux thing 
> I keep hearing about?" I give them Xandros.  More often than not, they're 
> very impressed, and happy with it.
> 
>  	And if the argument is that it's pay software, I'm sure you're all 
> aware of Xandros' free circulation edition.  Or maybe the argument has to 
> do with the fact that it's built upon what was once Corel Linux?
> 
>  	Perhaps I'm just missing the boat, and you all think Fedora is 
> just better than both of them?
> 
>  	On a side note, I am personally a debian zealot, and for fear of 
> starting a flamewar, I'll simply say I very much dislike redhat and 
> mandrake, and leave it at that. :D
> 
>  	Just looking for some insight.
> 
> Regards,
> Justin Wheeler
> 
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