[juneau-lug] Re: Different Distro

  • From: Chuck Hakari <chakari@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 17:40:49 -0900

Jason,

Thanks for the additional info. Fritz is delivering the Mandrake disks 
tonight, so I will be working with it first. I will download Xandros 
while I'm twiddling with Mandrake!

Chuck

>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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