CodeWeavers CrossOver Office doesnt come with IE bundled with it. Crossover has a little TCL (looks like TCL to me) GUI application that keeps a list of what windows software has been installed on the virtual windows environment. It has a few common applications listed (Like IE, MS Media Player) etc that are listed as "Not Installed" when you first run it.
When you ask it to install IE, it actually contacts the MS download site, gets the little installer executable and then prompts the user with the MS EULA. From that point on its just like in windows, the components are downloaded, installed, and a few "reboots" of the vritual windows environment its ready to run.
Not something I would use personally, but if you like/need IE, it works... No copy of windows required.
Yeah, kinda like that. Except that someone coming from Windows wouldnt know to mount the CDROM drive. Again, would your average computer user (your mom or dad) know that to access her/his zip driver all she had to do was
modprobe usb-storage read system messages to find what SCSI id it is (or know its id X, and then know what partition P) mount/dev/sdXP/mnt/zip then browse it.
Im not saying that Konqueror cant do these things, i just think that asking an average windows user to run a manual mount command when they connect a new device will cause a lot of blank looks.
Besides, as previous posters have noted, this distro is not at all targeted at people reading/. . Useful is in the eye of the beholder.
Xandros File Manager is not a modified Konqueror. Although Konqueror is included for those who feel inclined to use it.
File Manager is designed specifically for the Xandros Desktop, whereas Konqueror is more general since it runs on many different OSs out there.
One of the big things I like about the File Manager is the ability to plug in a USB Zip driver or Flash drive and have it show up the tree of devices on the left. Click on it and youve got access to the drive.
File Manager's browsing of the Windows network and NFS networks is much more like windows users are accustomed to.
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CodeWeavers CrossOver Office doesnt come with IE bundled with it. Crossover has a little TCL (looks like TCL to me) GUI application that keeps a list of what windows software has been installed on the virtual windows environment. It has a few common applications listed (Like IE, MS Media Player) etc that are listed as "Not Installed" when you first run it.
When you ask it to install IE, it actually contacts the MS download site, gets the little installer executable and then prompts the user with the MS EULA. From that point on its just like in windows, the components are downloaded, installed, and a few "reboots" of the vritual windows environment its ready to run.
Not something I would use personally, but if you like/need IE, it works... No copy of windows required.
Yeah, kinda like that. Except that someone coming from Windows wouldnt know to mount the CDROM drive. Again, would your average computer user (your mom or dad) know that to access her/his zip driver all she had to do was
/dev/sdXP /mnt/zip
/. . Useful is in the eye of the beholder.
modprobe usb-storage
read system messages to find what SCSI id it is (or know its id X, and then know what partition P)
mount
then browse it.
Im not saying that Konqueror cant do these things, i just think that asking an average windows user to run a manual mount command when they connect a new device will cause a lot of blank looks.
Besides, as previous posters have noted, this distro is not at all targeted at people reading
Xandros File Manager is not a modified Konqueror. Although Konqueror is included for those who feel inclined to use it.
File Manager is designed specifically for the Xandros Desktop, whereas Konqueror is more general since it runs on many different OSs out there.
One of the big things I like about the File Manager is the ability to plug in a USB Zip driver or Flash drive and have it show up the tree of devices on the left. Click on it and youve got access to the drive.
File Manager's browsing of the Windows network and NFS networks is much more like windows users are accustomed to.