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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. Fr0st P1st for News For Turds? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Prolly not cuz i m teh sux

    Love always,

    News For Turds

    free hat

    1. Re:Fr0st P1st for News For Turds? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      >free hat

      Because people always come to read slashdot if they get a free hat.

      What, there's only 15 and there's 1 million hits daily? I'm not going online, no way man!

      I GOT MAIL! Yaaay!

    2. Re:Fr0st P1st for News For Turds? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Down, down baby,
      oops and oh maybee,

      Shimmy-shimmy-cocoa-puff,
      pass it to me now.

      timothy bend over and huff,
      listen to me now.

      YOU GUYS SING THE CHORUS!!!

    3. Re:Fr0st P1st for News For Turds? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      why in hell are they using CCMSN in this screenshot ?

      WAKE UP AND USE AMSN!!!

  2. 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.

  3. Sad day ... Stephen King dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

    1. Re:Sad day ... Stephen King dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      First *BSD, now this!? I would wager that dirty GNU hippies were behind this. Fuck the GNU hippies!

    2. Re:Sad day ... Stephen King dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Aparently he dies a lot.

    3. Re:Sad day ... Stephen King dead at 54 by fUllstAr · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      What are you smoking, Stephen? ;-)

      --
      THis is my signature bah: That's ridiculous, someone registered 'fullstar' so I had to choose 'fullstarplus'!!!
    4. Re:Sad day ... Stephen King dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Amazing that all these children are modded down, while the parent breezes along at the top :-(

  4. 2nd post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    booyah!

  5. can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what he said :-)

  6. 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?

  7. Re:Completely missing the point by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thank you, Mr. Obvious.

  8. Re:No offense... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SUCK MY PUSSY

  9. Re:No offense... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    No, but your mom did.

    Had to be said.

  10. Re:The little penguin... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, that made a tremendous butt-plug.

  11. FIRST POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FRIST POST

    W00000t

    Cherish my balls as though they were lost children.

  12. Re:Here's a hint. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So, would you like a blowjob?

    Eugenia - OSNews.com

  13. Re:Does it run on FreeBSD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm not sure, but I kinda doubt it, with FreeBSD being dead and all