Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 15th Mar 2004 20:24 UTC
Xandros is preparing to release the business edition of their popular Linux desktop distribution. Here's what we found out so far about this new product.
Permalink for comment
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Recent Original Stories
Recent Comments
Headlines
Random Comments
Random Stories
Random OS Link
I'm a Xandros 2.0 owner and in my experience:
Appearance: icons - OK, I guess, fonts - really nice except under CrossOver, as others have said. OpenOffice looks great - better than under any other distro - they've done something with the fonts, I think similar to Ximian.
Software availablilty. Those saying software choice is limited aren't paying attention. You can enable 'unsupported' sources in Xandros Networks to get a whole bunch more (console stuff like screen, zsh, sux etc.) Also, since Xandros is Debian you can use any Debian apt source as long as you protect the Xandros-specific stuff with apt pinning. Xandros should do more to make power users aware of this, like putting pinning instructions in the FAQ.
Documentation: Manual: amazing, on-line: not great. Libranet's on line support (especially the FAQ) is way better.
On balance, I like Libranet better since it's like Debian without the some of the hassles but Xandros is a mature, well designed desktop distro.
I am concerned about how much they contribute back to the free software community. I guess this may be through their parent company (Linux International)'s contributions to Wine through their sister company CrossOver. Don't know how significant this is, though.