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Xandros Releases Open Circulation Edition

Posted by timothy on from the free-as-in-beer-nuts dept.

jasonp writes "Xandros has just announced the release of an Open Circulation Edition of its famous Desktop OS. The Open Circulation Edition includes the Xandros File Manager, Opera for web browsing and email, and access to Xandros Networks. To accompany this exciting release, DesktopOS.com has published an exclusive interview (mirror) with a number of key Xandros executives." The license is a little off-putting, at least if you want to use the OS at work, but Xandros hopes people will find the OS attractive enough to pay for.

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  1. Four-click install with automatic disk partitionin by Tolar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Four-click install with automatic disk partitioning

    lets just hope this isn't like with some 'earlier' SuSE Linux where it overwrites the whole harddisk (yeah windows is gone ;))

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  2. Famous? by jarich · · Score: 5, Funny
    famous Desktop OS.

    I'm glad they told me it was famous... I didn't have any idea what it is!

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  3. I can't wait for the day... by huber · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Xandros Desktop OS is an intuitive graphical environment that works right out of the box and offers unrivaled compatibility with Microsoft Windows. The new Xandros Business Desktop OS adds enterprise-class Active Directory and PDC authentication to the peer-to-peer Windows networking found in the consumer editions."
    ..that microsoft starts claiming unrivialed compatiblity with linux.
  4. Re:Who's got a BitTorrent? by jdray · · Score: 4, Funny
    Start downloading people!

    You can download people now? Dang, this technology thing is getting complex. Why, back in my day, all you could download was programs. And we didn't have no broadband, we used modems. And they were slow. 1200 baud. Betcha don't even know what a "baud" is, do you boy? And this "save to hard disk" business? Modernist luxury! We used floppies, and we were happy about it. They were 140K on a side, and you had to hack them to make 'em two sided. If you had two floppy drives, you were cool. And RAM! Don't get me started...

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  5. Re:Who's got a BitTorrent? by neosake · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait 'till you see the chicks i'm downloading right now...

    Oh wait.

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  6. your momma's so fat... by gosand · · Score: 3, Funny
    You can download people now? Dang, this technology thing is getting complex.

    Your momma's so fat it took me 3 days to download her using internet2.

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