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Xandros buys Linspire What does it mean for Linux? (ITPro)Xandros buys Linspire What does it mean for Linux? (ITPro)Posted Jul 11, 2008 17:17 UTC (Fri) by beoba (guest, #16942)Parent article: Xandros buys Linspire What does it mean for Linux? (ITPro)
I honestly didn't know either of these distros were still active. Distrowatch says that the most recent version of Xandros, 4.1, was released Nov 2006. Linspire 6 came out last October, but that was about 1.5 years following their 5.1 release.
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Xandros buys Linspire What does it mean for Linux? (ITPro) Posted Jul 11, 2008 19:37 UTC (Fri) by NigelK (guest, #42083) [Link] Distrowatch is irrelevant for Xandros as its main channel is in pre-installed devices. Funny old world, isn't it? *Years* of bitching about how Linux hasn't entered the mainstream, then two million Eees later and the bitching has changed to people using "the wrong kind of Linux". Xandros has raised Linux's profile immeasurably in the non-geek markets, and yet they're targets for heaps of hate and bile because of the prejudices of very vocal by-standers. Where's the off-the-shelf Ubuntu UMPCs? Debian? How about Mandriva? Nope, none to be found on the shop shelves. Nothing in Toys R Us. Nothing. There's an inconvenient truth in there for some people.
Xandros buys Linspire What does it mean for Linux? (ITPro) Posted Jul 11, 2008 19:53 UTC (Fri) by sfeam (subscriber, #2841) [Link]
> Where's the off-the-shelf Ubuntu UMPCs? Debian? How about Mandriva?
I don't know about Ubuntu or Debian, but for Mandriva there is the "Kira":
http://www.linux-wizard.net/index.php?id_blog=202
Slightly wider but thinner than the EEE according to the specs.
Xandros buys Linspire What does it mean for Linux? (ITPro) Posted Jul 11, 2008 20:50 UTC (Fri) by beoba (guest, #16942) [Link] If that was the impression I was giving, I'm sorry. I just hadn't seen anything out of either project for some time, and assumed they had gone into maintenance mode.
Xandros buys Linspire What does it mean for Linux? (ITPro) Posted Jul 11, 2008 20:51 UTC (Fri) by beoba (guest, #16942) [Link] Also, what do you mean by "heaps of hate and bile"?
Xandros buys Linspire What does it mean for Linux? (ITPro) Posted Jul 12, 2008 10:13 UTC (Sat) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] I always suspected that Asus chose Xandros because they thought their contract with Xandros shielded them from the GNU GPL. They later discovered it was not the case...
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