[plug] Xandros OS

[Jim Householder]

Joel Johnson wrote:
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>>Is there a free version of xandros?
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> The one on the cover of the August Australian Developer mag is the "Open
> Circulation Edition" - ie for non-commercial use and no e-mail support (not
> too big a problem as apparently it's based on Debian so shouldn't be too
> difficult to get assistance from other PLUG members).
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> Joel

xandros 2 was the first distro I used full-time.  Until it came out with the April 2004 issue of Australian PC Authority I dabbled a bit and played around with it, but nothing serious.

xandros installed smoothly and for a while I was quite happy with it.  Very easy to use.  However while being of debian origin, it is quite heavily tweaked.  It is good for users, but not for hackers.  I eventually moved on to other distros because of things xandros did not cater for or had been modified to hide.

xandros-networks is quite convenient for package management, but be aware that it is *not* fault-tolerant.  Better to use apt.  I have tried to use dselect, but found that if too many dependencies need to be satisfied it gets hopelessly tangled.

Jim