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LinuxTimes: Desktop Face-Off: Xandros vs. Mepis

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 28, 2005

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]

“In this article I will compare Xandros 3 Open Circulation
Edition and SimplyMEPIS 2004.6. Both are based on Debian, come with
KDE, and are targeted to desktop users. They have the same goal,
but a different way to achieve it.

“Xandros is a commercial company, but they are offering the so
called ‘Open Circulation Edition’ for free download via BitTorrent.
However, the OCE does not have all the features as the boxed
versions, but more about this later…”


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