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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."
You really should install Xandros' PRIORITY desktop distribution.
The following features are installed by default:
WTC images as the default wallpaper to constantly remind us of our need for prioritization and perspective.
Sally Struthers Dock-app counter that ticks off the number of starving people in third-world countries.
Integrated calendar and scheduler, including timed reminders for planned WTO protests.
globally-aware MUD client (GAMUD). Create one of seventeen politically-aligned characters for debate and discussion at the UN round table!
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Seriously, just because I have an interest in this industry doesn't mean that I'm "squandering my finite, precious time on this earth playing video games." And I should think that the souls of those victims have a good deal more to do than to watch me eat breakfast- they're too busy laughing at your incredibly large sense of self worth, for instance.
How about getting a Mac for them?
Unless of course you are dead set on getting them a GNU/Linux machine in which case I pity you as although GNU/Linux is a nice server OS it isn't the best in the usability department for a desktop OS, yet.
Considering what they do, I would just get them a Flat Panel iMac.