[plug] XandrOS 2.0

[Craig Dyke]

Does anyone know whether Acer Travelmates inherently have problems with
Linux?

After seeing some glowing reviews about this distro, I informed a friend who
keeps
saying that he would like to give Linux a go (thinking that this may not
scare him too much)

He has an Acer TravelMate 250 and after putting CD in the splash screen
comes up at which point
I have tried both Enter and some of the other predefined loading options, to
only end up with the
prompt getting to line that says Loading Kernel... and then it just hangs
:((((

Anyone have any thoughts / suggestions?

Craig
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark J Gaynor" <mark at mjg.id.au>
To: "Plug" <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 5:35 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] XandrOS 2.0


>
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> On 3/12/04 at 2:55 PM Milan Pospisil wrote:
>
> >>>> squid at iinet.net.au 03/11/04 10:05pm wrote: >>>
> >
> >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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