DistroWatch: Can a Geek Love Xandros? | Linux Today

DistroWatch: Can a Geek Love Xandros?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 22, 2004

[ Thanks to Ladislav
Bodnar
for this link. ]

“Debian is an industrial-strength distro known for its
stability, superb package management, large software archive, a
terrible installer, and a lot of powerful but esoteric commands
such as: ‘dpkg-reconfigure etherconf, dpkg –get-selections,
apt-get upgrade, grep-status emacs’ and so on.

“There have been several commercial attempts to cloak Debian’s
mighty engine in a nice sleek-looking exterior. Xandros Desktop OS
is one of the slickest attempts yet at putting a point-and-click
interface on the untamed beast–think of it as Debian with
pizazz.

“Xandros version 2.0 was released in December, 2003, and not
surprisingly, a flood of reviews hit the web soon thereafter. Most
of these reviews have focused on the ease-of-use factor, which is
Xandros’ trump card…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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