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A First Look At The Xandros Desktop
Gentu writes "OSNews has an exclusive article regarding the awaited Xandros Desktop. Xandros is the company who purchased the Corel Linux source code and rights, so in essense, this is the second generation of the once promising, Corel's Linux. OSNews previews beta 3b and they say that this distribution, along with Lycoris, Lindows (and possibly Red Hat 8), is the one to compete for the purely-for-the-desktop Linux market."
Aye, but he's not the man who founded OSNews, nor is he the man who's currently in charge. In fact, he didn't even write the article- that person is Eugenia Loli-Queru of BeNews fame.
So no, nothing fishy here.
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Windows compatability gets better every single week.
Does Microsoft give Office technical support for WINE installs?
Why run it in an emulator at all when you could run the real thing?
If you're willing to shell out for the Office suite, why aren't you willing to buy or use the OS?
And Win2k *is* stable.
In screen shot 4 theres a resolution switcher ala windows where the hell has this been for the other distros?
CTRL-ALT-KP_MINUS and CTRL-ALT-KP_PLUS ?
Been around in X for quite some time.
Or am I missing something?
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Still, the majority of Windows users are still probably using an older version of Windows with their 2-3 year-old desktop machines, and are in no rush to buy a new computer.
Actually, no. The numbers are basically dead-even, at least according to the Google Zeitgeist: 49% of users are Win98/95, 46% are on XP/W2k/NT. (ME's not listed, probably buried in Other.) We've gotten rid of 98 (in favor of W2K) on our campus with the exception of a few old laptops that won't run anything else and other schools I know of have done the same.
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