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rcurley · Xplorer Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Posts: 49

Interesting...

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1836184,00.asp

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Shylock · Xandrosian Joined: 18 Jun 2005 Posts: 190

I'm always afraid to hear something like this, but I know it's progress, and it sounds good for obvious compatability things. not to mention conjoining forces have more power and more power generally means you'll be around longer.
interesting article though.

Monster_user · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:17 am Post subject:

Shylock · Xandrosian Joined: 18 Jun 2005 Posts: 190

Well, it's been my experiance that with alot of things, consortiums, or conglomerating efforts that make it are often the first step to sticking it to the end user in one way or another. Maybe I'm jaded, but it seems this is what often happens: 1)people work hard together to make something 'better'
2)that something actually gets alot better thus eliminating compition.
3)now whatever is better gets a attitude and thoughts of godhood
4)with godhood often comes the feeling of "well, I'm what you want, since you want me more than I want you, you, can piss off and I could care less.

ironic that some of the things that prevents *nix from taking over the world because of its greatness may also be what makes it great, but this is how I see things, and I am totally in support of this happening, but I live in a monopolistic society, and I know when people can be greedy they often choose to be.

EnviroTO · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:35 am Post subject:

Anything in Debian is guaranteed to be freely available. Debian is as free as a linux distro can be. Debian can't really take advantage of the public. If Xandros was partnering with Mandrivacoris then I might share your concern since that would be profit oriented companies getting together... but Debian is a group of free contributors.
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Zebaztian · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:12 pm Post subject:

How long will it take until the Debian Gnu/Linux kernel "Etch" will be integrated in the next version of Xandros?

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I have to tell you that I am so happy with my Xandros Desktop OS Version 3 Business Edition that I put up a website to tribute the OS. I want to be a retailer, but I still haven't found another real enthusiast in Sweden....yet, to organize the business with or a person that understands the value of a commercial Linux distro.

http://www.valuetainment.com

Arne Anka · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:20 pm Post subject:

For X4, never. For later releases, at least not until it reaches the "stable" stage. Until then Xandros will proceed to base their distro on current stable and backport individual packages from Etch (such as KDE).

Xandros main goal is to remain LSB compliant with or without Etch.

Zebaztian · Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:29 am Post subject:

Arne Anka · Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:55 am Post subject:

Zebaztian · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:52 pm Post subject:

The Linux® Standards Base (LSB) is a set of standards for compatibility among Linux distributions. Xandros, being based on Debian® GNU/Linux, is compatible with it, but is not yet fully LSB compliant. Xandros and Debian are moving towards LSB compliance. We are mostly compatible with the LSB specification but have not yet passed all official conformance tests.

http://support.xandros.com/kb-view.php?topic=32

Zebaztian · Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 2:50 pm Post subject:

This is a really interesting conversation between Magnus Blomfelt, Matt Zimmerman and Mark Shuttleworth:
http://www.nabble.com/Debian-Common-Core-Alliance-t854133.html

An overview of the issue above:
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8432548714.html

Maybe Xandros should aiming at search engine manipulation like Ubuntu members:

"On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Corey Burger wrote:
> We need to make certain that Ubuntu shows up in the rankings for the
> search "linux desktop".

Is this what is termed search engine manipulation? If you're going to do,
at least don't talk about it. One of Ubuntu's pleasing features is that
marketing has been subtle and not overt.

-Paul"
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/sounder/2006-January/003700.html

vorian · Xplorer Joined: 12 Sep 2006 Posts: 5

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