[juneau-lug] Re: Different Distro

Chuck Hakari wrote:

>Jason,
>
>Thanks for the info. I tried Xandros 1. It installed easily, looked nice 
>and worked well. Can't remember if the Open Circulation version included 
>devel tools. I compile a fair number of programs, so this is important 
>to me. I forgot to ask Fritz about this in the Mandrake distro. I'm 
>going to take another look at Suse, and I'm in the process of 
>downloading CentOS, which is based on RHEL. Still the same tools as 
>Fedora, but maybe more bugfree.
>
>  
>

Xandros Desktop OS (even Open Circulation) comes with the "usual 
suspects" as far as programming languages/compilers go.  To further 
clarify, Xandros is a Debian-based distribution, so any .deb package 
installs quite easily if you find you're missing something you want 
post-install.  Additionally, MANY .rpm packages installed natively 
without issue for me, but your mileage may vary of course.

Just to clarify, the Open Circulation edition of Xandros really only has 
a few MINOR (well, what I would consider minor) differences from their 
commercial product line.  It includes Open Office while their commercial 
releases include Star Office instead (I think I actually prefer Open 
Office, personally), doesn't include the Mozilla web suite by default 
(but allows you to install it quite easily afterwards, with about 5 
post-install mouse clicks), and limits CD burning speed to 4X, which 
isn't as bad as it sounds.  And iff you want CD burning higher than 4X, 
there are community contributions (i.e., "hacks" or work-arounds) that 
remove that limitation.  See 
http://www.xandros.com/products/desktop_matrix.html for the full list of 
differences in their product line.

For the record.... I don't work for Xandros, nor do they pay me for my 
"endorsement."  Their distribution genuinely impressed me as a viable 
desktop replacement for many/most tasks.  As I mentioned in my previous 
post, if more of my games played (well) under Linux in general, all of 
my home PC's would be running some flavor of Xandros Desktop OS.

Hope this helps,
Jason


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