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Xandros Releases Open Circulation Edition
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.
Could someone explain to me how it is that Xandros has managed to not distribute their OS for free for so long? Don't they have to adhear to the GPL? Am I missing something?
This looks to me like Windows '95, which is really Apple '86. Sorry, I don't mean to flame, but honestly - why would anyone want to pay for that when you can make your desktop look so much better with free, GPL'd products?
With a new release of mozilla out, why do they quietly choose a non free of browser software? I do emergency think this is emergency a sensible choice.
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SuSE was not for me a problem. SuSE gave no trouble and had good better documentation to users who German speak ;). The mother tongue of SuSE is German, and yours just inferior implement.
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You misunderstood the parent. Some earlier versions of distributions assumed that if you wanted to automatically partition a drive that you wanted to erase everything on it rather than just use the free space. Lots of new users accidentally wiped their windows partitions because they didn't know the consequences.
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Did you ever stop to consider the ramifications for companies that don't try "to cash in" on a SUCCESSFUL (meaning monetary) strategy. They become a blip on the software industry radar, and then they die. Some Slashdotters may not like Microsoft Windows, but I don't think you can argue about the success of their product, so it would only make common sense for other companies looking to grab a chunk of the market to adapt to existing markets, which would mean reaching a certain level of "Windows-ness." I mean, if they announced their compatability with RedHat or Suse networks, would you be more impressed? RedHat and Suse aren't really breaking any new ground technologically, so what's the pull with those operating systems over Xandros? After using RedHat for several years, I have grown tired with some of their short comings. Xandros addresses these issues and more, so I made the switch and I haven't looked back.
I find this kind of unabashed shameless shilling totally disgusting. Slashdot should know better than to accept such submissions.
The one concern I have is that it will be fashionable to slam this and any other easy to use Linux distribution because it is "easy" for the first timer. As if hard to use is supposed to be a hallmark of a good Linux distribution.
Try installing anything from debian. Try kpackage. Used to work. Now in version two it pretty much breaks everything. You can only get software from Xandros Networks.
They also took out the ability to join a domain between versions 1 & 2. I was all for this O/S.. now I'm jaded. The biz version which has this magically re-included is considerably more money. Their new xDMS server is confusing all the beta testers. We mistakenly thought that it would also function as a workgroup server. Tons of problems and not much really goin on in the forums. I haven't seen anybody get it working properly yet. I gave up after 3 days. I see from the interview that they also want to sell a workgroup server.. ahh I see, sell another O/S and license. Unreal. There's no good reason why the deployment and workgroup couldn't be the same machine. Most updates are done at night anyway.
Xandros showed great promise, but I think they're getting greedy now.
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they use a chipset that is well supported in linux. From what I've heard, the MS wifi card is actually easier to make work in some Linux distros than in most versions of Windows thanks to the lovely "stable" windows drivers and the all too familiar dll hell.
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I'm debian user myself, and I tried pirated version of xandros on one system just to kill boredom once and I was surprised just how easy it was to install.
I had raw system, unpartitioned hd, sound card, tuner card, 2 network cards, realtek and some nvidia, cd-burner, matrox g450.
I threw the install cd in and booted, 5, that's FIVE mouse clicks, reboot and I had fully installed operating system including just about everything I needed for daily use.
Only thing missing was pre-tuned tv-channels, but that wasn't big problem.
I tested the system for about a week, and recommended it for couple of friends who bought it and liked it.
Myself being poor student, decided to format and go back to my vanilla debian use.
Seriously, if you need desktop linux for office, I recommend xandros.
It's good value for the money, and if you want the latest progs for home use, just throw in more apt sources and upgrade using unstable debian packages.
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