Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Jul 2006 17:55 UTC, submitted by Valour
"Xandros Desktop Home Premium Edition is the most complete desktop GNU/Linux distribution on the market today, but it still has a few holes in it. If you want to play commercial DVD movies, use an unsupported wireless network card, watch WMV video clips, or install software that isn't in Xandros Networks, the default install will not be sufficient. This guide will show you how to add all of these capabilities to your Xandros Desktop Home Edition 4.0 installation."
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Well, all things considered, it is substantially easier to add the functionality in the article than it is for any other Linux distro. And I say that having written this article, 4 other "hacking" articles, and dozens of Linux distro reviews for my sites, plus OSTG.
Xandros has ATI and Nvidia drivers by default -- you don't have to mess with the hardware configuration at all. How many Linux distros can say that? Xandros has a one-click process for adding the Debian Sarge sources to Xandros Networks. How much more complex is it in other Debian-based commercial distros? Xandros only has one office suite, Web browser, and file manager. How many desktop distros have 2 or 3 of each, clogging the menus and confusing the user?
So yes, I say that Xandros is the most complete desktop distro there is, because making it truly complete takes less work than not only any other distro, but any other OS period. Having said that, I'll also say that not everyone will get their money's worth out of buying Xandros. I use Gentoo and OpenBSD on my systems, and wouldn't switch if you paid me -- and I get Xandros and Linspire for free. But someone who doesn't want to install an OS from the command line will be likely to think Xandros' cost is truly a good value.