On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 12:26, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Basil,
On Saturday 28 May 2005 06:44, Basil Chupin wrote:
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Why don't people try Xandros Deluxe v3.0? Installs like a dream, recognises all the hardware, automatically resizes Windows partitions during installation, the sound works from the start, installs during the installation process the nVidia driver without all the crap about proprietary s/ware, and it even runs some M$ software like Photoshop and Office because it comes with CrossOver Office. Oh, and when you turn off the Screensaver it actually turns off and stays off.
And already behind the times: Kernel 2.6.9, KDE 3.3, OO.o 1.1, X.org 6.7, Java 1.4.2, CrossOver Office 4.1 (which is a 30-day trial only). Limited s/w: Reiser and Ext3 only, e.g. But what would we expect: "Based on Debian..."
I'e got the 3.02 community release on my HD, nice, but no internet, install the 2.0 community version, nice, and internet.
See <http://www.xandros.com/products/home/desktopsurf/dsk_surf_details.html>.
Generally speaking, there's no reason to think this distribution is any more impervious to things breaking (the screen saver, e.g.) as an individual user starts modifying and extending the configuration. And for what it's worth, I've not had any problem controlling my screen saver.
Xandros warns you that if you use .deb packages from elsewhere it cannot probably handle any updates for them.
This distribution may be a good choice for some users, but probably not for those of us for whom SuSE is a good choice.
Agreed, Ubuntu 5.04 hoary hedgehog is head and shoulders better than Xandros In My Opinion!!!. Neither of them have YaST which I must admit has me spoiled rotten.
Personally I think this is the future desktop OS to replace M$, but what do I know.
Only you know what you know.
It needs a lot of work to get there, but this may be the difference between their box version capabilities and their download (bit-torrent only) version.