Posted by
michael
on from the debian-goodness dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Xandros is now shipping version 2 of their Desktop Linux distro and it's also possible to purchase a download version. Based on Debian (sarge), KDE 3.1.4, 2.4.22 kernel. Cool CD burning is integrated into the Xandros File manager. Screenshots are here."
But did they pay their extortion money?
by
pla
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· Score: 1, Offtopic
Cool CD burning is integrated into the Xandros
File manager
All well and good, but have they paid royalties on
this
patent (5,666,531, owned by Optima)?
It would seem a pity to have the gestapo show
up at Xandros' HQ simply for failing to pay off
the right people...
LindowsOS is not based on Xandros
by
Kevin+Carmony
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· Score: 0, Offtopic
I just wanted to clear that up.
It's true that about two years ago, we contracted with both Xandros and Caldera to do some early OS work for us. The work (and code) from both of these companies has long since been abandoned and replaced with updated, modern code.
LindowsOS is, however, very much based on Debian. LindowsOS is designed to be an easy-to-install and use Debian, with particular detail to hardware support, CNR (click-n-run for installing software), laptop and power management support, 10 minute installation, audio tutorials, plug-n-play support, etc.
5 of these kids are doing the same thing, 1 of these kids is all on his own. Which one of these kids is doing his own thing, now it's time to play our game.
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I hope these guys don't see this.
Cool CD burning is integrated into the Xandros File manager
All well and good, but have they paid royalties on this patent (5,666,531, owned by Optima)?
It would seem a pity to have the gestapo show up at Xandros' HQ simply for failing to pay off the right people...
I just wanted to clear that up.
It's true that about two years ago, we contracted with both Xandros and Caldera to do some early OS work for us. The work (and code) from both of these companies has long since been abandoned and replaced with updated, modern code.
LindowsOS is, however, very much based on Debian. LindowsOS is designed to be an easy-to-install and use Debian, with particular detail to hardware support, CNR (click-n-run for installing software), laptop and power management support, 10 minute installation, audio tutorials, plug-n-play support, etc.
Kevin Carmony
President, Lindows.com, Inc.
Gentoo, Lindows, lycoris, SUSE, Mandrake, Redhat
5 of these kids are doing the same thing, 1 of these kids is all on his own. Which one of these kids is doing his own thing, now it's time to play our game.