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Pros and Cons of Xandros
I recently installed Xandros to an older computer and loved the interface. Since it was a play computer, I have a copy of Windows XP that I also installed. I upgraded to a newer system and reinstalled windows and during the install, added two partitions, and put Xandros on one of the partitions. Xandros installed and the boot manager worked perfectly. No problems or issues and I was able to dual boot flawlessly. I downloaded Linspire and installed it to the 3rd partition and its boot manager didn't recognized Xandros but had no problems with Windows. To play around, I uninstalled and reinstalled Xandros to its original partion and it recognized both Linspire and Windows xp with no problems. I have been booting all 3 with no problems at all.
Now to my question.
I noticed that Xandros does not seem to have much of a following or at least is not talked about as much on sites other than forums.xandros.com. I did a word search in Experts Exchange for the past year and the word Xandros came up only 3 times. It is not a featured distro that I could find on linuxiso.org either.
For a linux that has worked so well for me, my questions is "why isn't it more popular? Are their issues I need to know about before I put a lot of faith in the Xandros distribution? I haven't done much else with it because I have been going through distributions for awhile but have taken a liking to it so far and it's applications. Thanks.
Now to my question.
I noticed that Xandros does not seem to have much of a following or at least is not talked about as much on sites other than forums.xandros.com. I did a word search in Experts Exchange for the past year and the word Xandros came up only 3 times. It is not a featured distro that I could find on linuxiso.org either.
For a linux that has worked so well for me, my questions is "why isn't it more popular? Are their issues I need to know about before I put a lot of faith in the Xandros distribution? I haven't done much else with it because I have been going through distributions for awhile but have taken a liking to it so far and it's applications. Thanks.
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very nice walkthrough!
Blagodaram Krasen !
;) Blagodaria ,Nedeljko !
So to you all and to bd1sau,
i was able to visit LinuxTag 2006 for a just one day ;it was on Thursday, the 04.05.2006;the only i can say is:it was a splendid conference!
So, and there was an Info Point of Xandros ,so i got an originally pressed CD of the newer version on Xandros Desktop OS 3.1 German edition;not quite sure ,which version of all(Standard,Deluxe,SurfSi
http://www.xandros.com/products/home/products_home.html ,but the Xandros' man stated,that i could use the Desktop OS free of charge;checking out the website i'm really stumped regarding this all kind of legal issues and tryal periods,i think i might install this version ,which i gained on CD and will test all kind of software ,especially the CodeWeavers CrossOver Office 5.0!
Nice time to you all!
So to you all and to bd1sau,
i was able to visit LinuxTag 2006 for a just one day ;it was on Thursday, the 04.05.2006;the only i can say is:it was a splendid conference!
So, and there was an Info Point of Xandros ,so i got an originally pressed CD of the newer version on Xandros Desktop OS 3.1 German edition;not quite sure ,which version of all(Standard,Deluxe,SurfSi
http://www.xandros.com/products/home/products_home.html ,but the Xandros' man stated,that i could use the Desktop OS free of charge;checking out the website i'm really stumped regarding this all kind of legal issues and tryal periods,i think i might install this version ,which i gained on CD and will test all kind of software ,especially the CodeWeavers CrossOver Office 5.0!
Nice time to you all!
I don't know but you will probably have to register software like crossover etc. Normally what you have on such a CD would be trial versions, and when you want to use it you'll have to pay for these. I don't think codeweavers (and the other commercial titles that are on that CD) will be happy to give the software out to be used for free indefinitely.
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I have learned so much since I posted this question and wanted to add a few things. There is a poscast for new linux users called linux reality. The guy starts from the basics and works his way up so if you are new to linux, you ought to check it out. Since the post above, I have installed 3 distros of linux to my windows xp machine. I have Suse 10.1, Xandros, and PCLINUXOS. What I have found is the Xandros boot loader is superior to all others I have tried for newbie use. I installed Suse and it would dual boot windows but didn't recognize the other linux operating systems. PCLINUXOS was the same. I reinstalled Xandros and now I can boot all 3 versions of linux as well as XP. It has been a joy.
Fine, have fun;note that the rindi's comment is evry reasonable,the funny thing is :
on my version during the installation the dialog states that it's commpletely free...just try it out ;i'm aware of the fact that only business users should pay for sure...
Nice time!
on my version during the installation the dialog states that it's commpletely free...just try it out ;i'm aware of the fact that only business users should pay for sure...
Nice time!
Have a look at http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=xandros. I have used Xandros before and it is quite good. However, I stopped using it due to the fact that I need to test compatibility with the software I write for Fedora libraries, thus I switch.
I would think that if you are using it for some day to day office work, it is a good distro.