[plug] XandrOS 2.0

[Garry]

Shayne O'Neill wrote:

>whoa! Nice. office2000 outa the box. that is just.. stunning.
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>I've dicked about with crossover office, which is OK I guess , but I gotta
>admit it was a little clunky.
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>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,
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>>>The current issue (April) of Australian PCAuthority has a installation
>>>CD for XandrOS 2.0.
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>>>The installation XandrOS (Debian-based) on a Intel Pentium IV system
>>>with a SiS motherboard went so very smoothly.
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>>>Within an hour I have a working linux install with internet connectivity
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>>>from one of the three ethernet adapters, Instant Messaging and VNC
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>>>connectivity were nice additions.  The internet update was also flawless.
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>>>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'.
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>>>Has anyone else had any experience with it?
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>>Yes. I have this distro and I can run Office 2000 out of the box. Cool
>>stuff.
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>>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.
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>>Mark
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Ditto.

I was getting frustrated that RealOne media player didn't seem available 
for Linux, then I saw that it is on Xandros 2.0.

So I installed it from a magazine CD and it is very nice.. There's not 
the 5,000 application choices which seen to be there in modern distros, 
but everything is there I need.

It set up my NVidia driver, wireless card, X, sound. Very nice.

One trick was that while it did not query me for wireless config info, 
there is a nice wireless tools gui in the control centre. No dicking 
about with wireless-tools commands or installation. I know it's not hard 
but I'd like to see Linux spread, so making it easy is in everyone's 
interests..

The distro seems very polished so far.. And it's Debian based too!! WOOO!!

The Xandros sources-list doesn't have mythtv (for when I fix the 
desktop), sylpheed or libdvdcss, but I know where to get that!  
Debian-ness mmmm...  8^)==

Garry