http://www.osnews.com/story/9904/Packaging_Tutorial_for_Xandros_3_0 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:45:27 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Realy nice tutorial. Tue, 08 Mar 2005 10:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I tried Xandros 3 and managed to update it to Debian unstable without problem, then just ignored the Xandros network thing. It's a very polished distribution and the file manager's great. Also it's the only distribution that's managed to configure the bootloader properly so I can load windows from my second HD. (added that config file to the pile I've collected from various distros where bits actually worked properly ;-) )

Unfortunately it's noticeably slower than a pure Debian installation for me, especially in application startup time. Tue, 08 Mar 2005 10:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? ...creating a decent debian package isn't quite that easy. Sure, you get something installable, but it probably breaks pretty much every guideline in the debian book. But alas, for starters it'd do, I guess. Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I don't think anyone mildly sane would ever use Xandros as a base for a Debian SID environment...
If you DO want Debian SID, but cannot cope with the intricacies of installing from scratch, then the Kanotix LiveCD is definitely the best you can afford. Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? But the Kanotix LiveCD like most others comes with mountains of crap you'll never use. I tried it as I'd heard the scripts make installing the ATI drivers easy, (I just got a load of error messages when I tried them though)

The beta installer for Debian Sarge is completely automated apart from a few questions about your monitor, network adapter etc so it's really not that hard to use. Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Great tutorial, thanks a lot. Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments