Spawn of Debian faceoff: Xandros 2.0 (NewsForge) [LWN.net]

NewsForge reviews Xandros 2.0. "There is an interesting array of applications included by the default installation available via the menu launcher. Accessories include both a personal time tracker and pop-up notes. There is a complete CrossOver menu to allow you to run MS Office, Adobe Photoshop, and other Windows applications on your Xandros box. Multimedia includes Audio Builder, which is actually ARTS, the Real Time Synthesizer. OpenOffice.org is also present. The only thing that surprised me was that the GIMP was not present in the default installation. But given the ease of adding applications via Xandros Networks, that's really not a big deal."

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Spawn of Debian faceoff: Xandros 2.0 (NewsForge)

Posted Jan 22, 2004 21:31 UTC (Thu) by tsinclai (guest, #11399) [Link]

I've been seeing quite a few reviews of Xandros recently. So much so that I decided to try it
out on my office desktop. I'm an instructor at a small technical school that is very Windows-
centric, but I had been using RH 8 + Win4Lin to get things done. However, my RH install
was getting harder to manage and keep up to date and I had played with apt-get and dpkg
enough to decide that they were pretty handy.

I ordered Xandros 2.0 Deluxe. It installed very nicely, Crossover Office runs my two
Windows-only apps (one of which is IE 6) and so far I'm a very happy camper.

My one observation, however, is that Xandros seems to be squarely aimed at the non-geek
desktop user. It doesn't "feel" as tweakable as other distros I've tried, though I realize that
it's relatively easy to pop the hood and turn it back into Debian.

All in all, though I would recommend it to recovering Windows users with very few
reservations.