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Here you can find the "home-user" version.
And here (PDF Warning!!),
https://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/64/Linux_Maga zine_DVD.pdf
you can read an English language article describing this special
home version called JuegaLinex (Play LinEx).

It gives an option at install-time to d/l nvidia or ati 3D drivers.
I put this on a 800mHz mini-itx box for my niece and nephew--
They loved it!
(You can easily localize this version to English)
Many educational apps and a ridiculous number of games!
I recommend to try it on any small people you may know.

Yes because including the name "Breezy Badger" on the CD case which is attached to the front cover of Linux-magazine and displaying it on the mag self at Borders and Barnes and Nobel helps out the cause. Maybe if the Linux community didn't advertise the release name then nobody would make fun of it. Just a thought. Oh and thanks for personally attacking me for making a comment about a distro's name dip shit. http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/63/LinuxMagazi neCover.jpg

There is a good article on it from an old Linux-magazine. It explains how to make it work without EEPROM burners and such. Note that this involves removing your BIOS while the computer is running. Needless to say it's not something a person who is unused to playing with hardware and software should attempt.

As to your other questions. It's "just" a way to boot Linux really-really fast. You'll have Linux booted in about the same time a normal POST process.

"Almost all KDE Apps" seems pretty lame in the same way as "almost all Microsoft apps" would make a mainstream computer lacking a lot of these apps that are actually useful.

The least you can accept from something that people are using would be a working xmms interface...

Of course most people with some programming skills could control xmms easily, which means that we won't see a simple standardized system on linux anytime soon.

DCOP tutorial

The install went like a breeze. I really liked it compared to the Mandrake install because it asked for all the usual information (ip address/dhcp, root pass, users and passwords etc etc) up front rather than after the install process.

My impression of the desktop was rapidly lowered when it booted up into KDE after the install. I'm a major KDE fan, so why the default browser was Mozilla rather than Konqueror?

And it was the full Mozilla, rather than the nippy, lightweight Firebird

But I digress here - i think Xandros made a strategic error here. Konqueror is tightly integrated into KDE - that's the whole point of KDE - make it easy , make it integrated. Ok, this sounds like Micro$oft, but the strategy is clearly aimed at Grandma/Joe Six pack end user.

Why lump them with Moz , when even Moz themselves say that the Moz browser is too bloaty?

I couldn't find Kmail either - i had to use the Moz emailer (urggh), and loading times on my test 700 mhz , 128mb box were appalling - about 5 seconds to load the Moz browser.
My honest advice to Xandros is - dump Moz, keep OpenOffice, and make Konqueror/Kmail the default browser & email system.
And yes folks - i know how to change this on Xandros to my own preferences, but that's not the point - we're talking about Joe Six Pack end user here. The distro initial decisions ARE important. Incredibly important.

But on that negative note, i must leave with a very positive note - the install process is best i've ever seen in distro so far. It's awesome - and highly professional and well presented. It's a new benchmark that other distro's should follow. (well, i haven't tried out Mepis yet - or texstar's PCLinuxOS...)

Check out Samsung Contact. It's not OpenSource, but it is a good alternative to MS Exchange. Samsung Contact runs on Linux. http://www.samsungcontact.com/en/product/
Linux Magazine has writen about this issue. Take a look at Linux Magazine Issue 29: April 2003

Sounds more than a little like KDE/dcop ... check out this recent article.

This article shows one way to do it under KDE. It's explained on page 3.

Although SuSE'slast bid arguably altered the course for good, the victorious Social Democrats stand firm in the position that the decision in favor of Linux and a yet to be chosen Open Source office software is of fundamental nature and does not imply contracts with SuSE or IBM.

They discussed and tested the following

1. SuSE OpenExchange Server 4
2. Samsung Connect
3. Stalker CommuniGate
4. Easygate Workgroup
5. Bynari Insight Server

The April archive is online and link is here. There are a number of PDF files with the article details in them.

They discussed and tested the following

1. SuSE OpenExchange Server 4
2. Samsung Connect
3. Stalker CommuniGate
4. Easygate Workgroup
5. Bynari Insight Server

The April archive is online and link is here. There are a number of PDF files with the article details in them.

We're only just starting to roll it out, but it has failed to impress me so far.

It makes a complete desktop install (up to and including asking if you want to install 3D drivers).
I have also ran into some limitations in their installer WRT LVM and (software) RAID, and SW RAID and boot managers - which are really limitations in their installer and not in the actual technologies.

I have run into a few real bugs already in their web frontend, concerning no less than configuration of the thing.
I've reported two bugs two days ago in the morning; they are still unanswered as of now (~10AM here so that would be two full days by now[1]).

I've also encountered at least one "bug" which was a case of inaccurate error reporting, and took a while to figure out what was really going on.

I still have to look into that part yet, but from a superficial glance it will also take quite some work to integrate it into our existing network infrastructure (existing user accounts in LDAP, anyone? And migrating our mail configuration from our existing server.)

The support is not bad, but it's not fast (there are support upgrade programs for that) and the fact that I needed it a few times already is concerning (take my word on that).

When one deviates even the smallest amount from the SuSE set out configuration/environment, small things break everywhere. Which makes it a non-solution for anything beyond small upstart companies.

In the april issue of Linux Magazine there was a cover story about five candidate Exchange replacements, including OpenExchange, with an initial comparison and then individual articles about each of those five (of which, incidentally, the OpenExchange one is available online).
In their comparison, OpenExchange came out as the least fit Exhange replacement candidate. IIRC, there were two very good ones (ISTR easygate was one of them, can't remember the other and I don't have the mag at hand anymore), two still very good but not as good as the other, and then OE.

I'd suggest to order an evaluation version first, and see how it works out.

[1] As a matter of fact, replies to both just rolled in while I was typing this comment. So that would make up to 2 date reply time (another issue I reported about was more like one day)