Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Dec 2006 00:14 UTC, submitted by Valour
"There are several 'business', 'corporate', or 'professional' desktop operating systems on the market today, all aimed at seeping into large corporations that already use GNU/Linux on servers. It's a pretty good plan, and most of the operating systems in this arena are pretty good - not perfect, but pretty good. Xandros has had such a product for a while now, and it's always been near the top of the list in terms of features and quality. The market is now mature and the products are more competitive, though, and the product formerly known as Xandros Business Desktop, while still a good operating system, isn't keeping up with the industry's pace."
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The problem with Xandros is that they never quite realized that people running a Debian based system would want to hook up to and install from Debian repositories.
That's not the kind of audience Xandros is looking for.
People that run Xandros are not required to know what Debian, repository, dpkg, apt-get all even means, and why should they?
People that just want an office pc that's stable, for internet, creating documents and spreadsheets, printing, working easily with Windows in a network, and playing a few mp3s or minesweeper in the meantime, don't need a repository with thousands of packages for easily installing Liferea or Nano, let alone if they wouldn't know where to look.
Those that want Debian, might as well use Debian.