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<DIV><BR><BR>>>> squid@iinet.net.au 03/11/04 10:05pm
wrote: >>><BR><BR>Hello all,<BR><BR>The current issue (April) of
Australian PCAuthority has a installation <BR>CD for XandrOS 2.0.<BR><BR>The
installation XandrOS (Debian-based) on a Intel Pentium IV system <BR>with a SiS
motherboard went so very smoothly.<BR><BR>Within an hour I have a working linux
install with internet connectivity <BR>from one of the three ethernet adapters,
Instant Messaging and VNC <BR>connectivity were nice additions. The
internet update was also flawless.<BR><BR>The GUI is configured to make Windows
users comfortable (similar to <BR>Lycoris) and it claims to be able to run most
Windows applications 'out <BR>of the box'.<BR><BR>Has anyone else had any
experience with it?<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR><BR>Vaughan<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Hi Vaughan,</DIV>
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I personaly reckon that Xandros2.0 is OK, even though there is still some room
for improvement. The installation was pretty straight forward and easy and there
are some nice features to it. Not quite so when I tried the second (application)
CD.That was a bit of a challenge and I needed some help there (thanks
Cameron).</DIV>
<DIV> Then in order to play encrypted DVDs I installed a decoder from
: <SPAN class=postbody1><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN class=postbody1><SPAN
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class=postbody1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; LETTER-SPACING: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><A
href="http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.8/deb/libdvdcss2_1.2.8-1_i386.deb"
target=_blank>http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.8/deb/libdvdcss2_1.2.8-1_i386.deb</A></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=postbody1><SPAN
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face="MS Sans Serif" size=1>That worked, except I lost sound. Disabling ALSA
drivers and replacing them with OSS solved that one(thanks Davyd). However,
chances are that the problem is more with my sound card(part of the motherboard)
then with Xandros. I will try a decent PCI sound card when I get
one.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=postbody1><SPAN
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face="MS Sans Serif" size=1> Another thing about Xandros 2.0 I can not
figure out: Does it have a firewall? I do not remember seeing anything about it
during the installation and I can not find any traces of
it.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=postbody1><SPAN
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face="MS Sans Serif" size=1> Otherwise, there are some features other
distros do not seem to have like the CrossOver Office ad so far I can not
complain there.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=postbody1><SPAN
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face="MS Sans Serif" size=1> There is a Xandros forum <A
href="http://forums.xandros.com/">http://forums.xandros.com/</A> if anyone
is interested</FONT></SPAN></SPAN>.</DIV>
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Regards</DIV>
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Milan Pospisil</DIV></BODY></HTML>