[plug] XandrOS 2.0

[Shayne O'Neill]

whoa! Nice. office2000 outa the box. that is just.. stunning.

I've dicked about with crossover office, which is OK I guess , but I gotta
admit it was a little clunky.

deb based... I'm sold.

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On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Mark J Gaynor wrote:

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> On 3/12/04 at 2:55 PM Milan Pospisil wrote:
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> >>>> squid at iinet.net.au 03/11/04 10:05pm wrote: >>>
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> >Hello all,
> >
> >The current issue (April) of Australian PCAuthority has a installation
> >CD for XandrOS 2.0.
> >
> >The installation XandrOS (Debian-based) on a Intel Pentium IV system
> >with a SiS motherboard went so very smoothly.
> >
> >Within an hour I have a working linux install with internet connectivity
> >from one of the three ethernet adapters, Instant Messaging and VNC
> >connectivity were nice additions.  The internet update was also flawless.
> >
> >The GUI is configured to make Windows users comfortable (similar to
> >Lycoris) and it claims to be able to run most Windows applications 'out
> >of the box'.
> >
> >Has anyone else had any experience with it?
>
> Yes. I have this distro and I can run Office 2000 out of the box. Cool
> stuff.
>
> It is not the ultimate solution, but, it goes a long way to bridging the
> void
> between Linux and Windows. I think this type of solution will help the
> open source community in converting people to a more stable workstation.
> The out of the box utilities are just what most people use and you don't
> have
> to search the net to get and install them.
>
> Mark
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