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A First Look At The Xandros Desktop

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rising-from-the-grave dept.

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."

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  1. More choices by I_am_Rambi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sounds like it would be interesting. Can the Corel Linux be better than Open Office? Will it also come with an email/calendar client? (Which is one thing that I miss in open office.) Can it translate Word docs easily? I think that it would be better to be compatible than be great and uncompatible.

  2. And possibly Red Hat? by I+Want+GNU! · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes, Red Hat is good, but Mandrake one ups it. And look at the publisher of OSNews -- David Adams. This man founded Akopia, which was acquired by Red Hat. Red Hat is good but this site reeks of bias and who knows what other special interests have stakes in it. Maybe his link with Red Hat didn't affect the article, but theoretically (of course), what if a big name in a major operating system advised the government on, say, software security? Would that smell fishy?