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blayne · Last edited by blayne on Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:22 am; edited 1 time in total

Now that Microsoft has crawled into bed with Xandros, the Xandros customers will be crawling out of that bed and looking for another love interest. What's your next distro and why?

Buh bye! Buh bye!

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PAn · Xplorer Joined: 21 Jan 2006 Posts: 113

Mepis 6.5 rocks, if you are advanced then Debian.
My history: Mandrake, Redhat, Libranet, Kanotix, still in use are latest Mepis and Debian stable. I don't like the fact that Mepis is Ubuntu based, but is dead easy to install. Debian is not without glitches but is simple enough that even I can install it. Cool

I think that Debian will be around when a lot of today's wonders are history.

blayne · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 11:32 am Post subject:

I had lost interest in the distro wars because I was very happy with Xandros, but now I'm forced to change distros. I had seen Ubuntu recently. A friend was evaluating it. He's still using Windows but I liked Ubuntu. It was sort of my front runner candidate before doing today's research. I'm just getting started but PCLinuxOS 2007 looks nice from the first glance. It has a live CD so you can try it before installing it, which is a great feature. I'm going to downlod it now. I'll let you other MSXandros refugees know what I think, at least until this thread is deleted.

The PCLinuxOS website:
http://www.pclinuxos.com

Installation instructions, including the link to the CD image download:
http://www.howtoforge.com/the_perfect_desktop_pclinuxos_2007

Other distro suggestions welcome! I'm just getting started in my research. I'm placing a premium on a NON-COMMERCIAL distro this time because it seems less likely to be corrupted by the evil influence. Twisted Evil

I'm sick at having to change distros after a long and happy run with Xandros, but looking forward to getting on with my PC life.

I feel like I've been married for four years and was shocked to learn my wife was cheating on me.
Sad

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lpbbear · Xendrosian Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 1794

I have experiemented with Ubuntu, Kubuntu, PCLinuxOS, Saybayon, Mepis, and several others. Most of them are quite good. If this "deal" is true my choice will likely be Kubuntu or PCLinuxOS. Both are well done with a few flaws here and there but no more flaws than we have all seen in Xandros itself. The one thing I have found much more to my liking is the frequency and number of software applications and updates available for these distributions.

Xandros has never bitten the bullet in this area and Xandros users have always suffered from a lack of timely updates and the limited number of available applications in the Xandros Networks. In this area Linspire made the smart move by aligning with the Ubuntu repositories a while back.

I have been using Kubuntu 6.10 for a while on the system I use to create the BTMappack and have had zero problems with it.
Xandros does have some advantages in areas such as installer and few other items but none so important that I would choose to stay with Xandros after such a disgusting move like "partnering" with Microsoft.

warlockomega · Xandrosian Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 183

I have already pulled Xandros off my laptop and installed Kubuntu 6.06lts.
No problems and it runs just as good. As for my main machine Im thinking Freespire when it comes out. That or PCLinux 2007.
As for my work systems, well lets just say that as of this moment PCLinux is being tested to replace Xandros. Im really disappointed in Xandros for this. I thought I had found a distro to believe in and trust. Guess I was wrong.

Warlock Twisted Evil

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pepisolo · Xplorer Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 23

Definitely, PCLinuxOS for me, I'm currently using an old test release of it, but it works like a dream. PCLinuxOS is as easy to use as Xandros and the boot times are exceptional. I've also been impressed with the repository, it doesn't have the depth of packages that Xandros does, but the packages it does have are always really up to date. It is easily the best distro I have tried.

thompson · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:35 pm Post subject:

Ah, well. It was nice while it lasted. I run Kubuntu on all but one of our systems, but I had been recommending Xandros to Linux newbies and small businesses. No more.

The one system I did have running Xandros is running the Kubuntu installer as I write this, and I won't be recommending Xandros to anyone any longer.
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Soren_Helskov · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject:

Bye bye Xandros.

How stupid can you be!!! Evil or Very Mad

By the way. Ubuntu 7.04 on my Desktop and Pclinuxos on my Laptop
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blayne · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject:

I'm not a big fan of OS eye candy, but I know from past threads that many of you guys are. Who needs screen shots now? We have video OS demos on YouTube. Check out PCLinuxOS running Beryl Cube. That's eye candy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uplw5tlB1ag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9BD6C6s23Y

I liked the first one because it shows PCLinuxOS running on the same model of notebook PC I'm using.

And a couple of Mac/PC ad parodies, just for fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_O2I0zXpeE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoiMXMPcCQ

Gotta go. My PCLinuxOS download is finished. Time to burn the live CD and try it on a couple of PCs.
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aldube · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:53 pm Post subject:

I'm sticking with Xandros, as the Xandros & Micro$oft Agreement hasn't created any bad apples yet!

If the potential patent war actually worked out in Micro$oft's favor (court cases don't always work out as predicted), Xandros would of probably been one of the first casualties since Xandros is more Windows-like than most other Linux distros.

It's way too soon to predict whether this is a good or bad move made by Xandros!

I'm sure there will be a lot of Linux radicals TROLL-ing around the Xandros forums bad mouthing Xandros every opportunity they get; I however like to take a wait and see appoach in this particular situation. Wink

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tony · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:01 pm Post subject: I won't bad mouth Xandros

But, do you really think Micro$oft wants to extend any help to any Linux Co? If you think so, all you have to look at is M$'s past history. It's just a matter of time before M$ start killing these distros.

This makes me sick, and personally, I will not purchase Xandros any longer. Note that I am one of the ones that started with Corel Linux and stayed with it because of the great Linux product. But, this move is too much for me to keep me here.

Later Xandros... Crying or Very sad

What really sucks, is that this forum is the best of all Linux forums I ever encountered. I can almost always solve my problem here, and the response is fast. I usually find the solution the same day I post an issue. I hope I can find good folks like these at the Ubuntu forum...

Soren_Helskov · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:09 pm Post subject:

aldube · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:26 pm Post subject: Re: I won't bad mouth Xandros

Set · Xandrosianding Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 858

Guess this is my last post in this forum. I don't want to spend time on a distro that acknowledges MS patent FUD as a real thing. Will do some distro surfing again. Probably learn how to tweak Kubuntu.

Be well everyone. Who knows. I might come back at another time.

//Set
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lpbbear · Xendrosian Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 1794