:DesktopOS: Xandros 2.5 Review - Why I Choose Xandros...
DesktopOS: Xandros 2.5 Review - Why I Choose Xandros... Dec 6, 2004, 08 :30 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (5420 reads) (Other stories by Jay Kruizenga)
"I began playing around with the Linux desktop back in 1998 when the real players were RedHat, Caldera OpenLinux, and SuSE. There really was not a good distribution for the new user and Linux had years to go before it would be ready to this end. I remember choosing OpenLinux and the struggles I went through getting my hardware to work. Back then you really had to know ALL the details of each device you wanted to install. Took hours! I did get OpenLinux to install somehow, but found the distro to be unuseable and lacking much in the way of applications. I decided then that Linux was not ready for the primetime and returned to using Win98..."
