[plug] XandrOS 2.0

[Shayne O'Neill]

acpii. Xandros was doing the wierd on me till I turned off fancypants
power.

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Shayne O'Neill. Indymedia. Fun.
http://www.perthimc.asn.au

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Craig Dyke wrote:

> 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
>
>
> >
> >
> > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
> >
> > 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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