"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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Member since:2005-07-05
It doesn't matter who your target market is, the fact remains that a segment of Linux users exist that don't want to deal with Debian (or at least Debian the way it was a few years ago when Xandros first came out) but were very interested in Corel Linux/Xandros because they basically hoped it would give them what Ubuntu does today; an easy to install and use Debian system.
Xandros had the opportunity, in my opinion, to be where Ubuntu is today, but they messed it up by being incompatible with the Debian repositories. Instead of spending their time custom tweaking KDE, they should have ensured compatibility. I think they would be a lot more successful today if they had.
Member since:2006-12-12
Those that want Debian, might as well use Debian.
When Xandros first came out, that wasn't possible for many people. Just installing Debian was way beyond many people's grasp.
When Xandros first came out, I remember a lot of people I worked with being excited because it was based on Debian. Of course, they were disappointed by it when it failed to work correctly as mentioned by the other poster.
No company can expect to release a Linux distribution with out having the Linux community try it out. That is ridiculous.
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2006-08-09
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.