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OSNews: Xandros 2.0 � An End to Windows? An Adventure in Open Source

I’m a windows user by nature, I’ve been playing around with
Linux for a little while, I’m no Expert in any way but I’ve used
quite a few distro’s. The first distro I ever stuck with for any
amount of time Was Xandros 1.0, which a friend provided for me.
Except for the fact that it ran an old version of KDE it was
perfect for me, but the old KDE crippled my work. Enter Xandros
2.0.

“This machine Was Running XP Pro on the whole disc, I booted
from the Xandros 2.0 Deluxe disc and auto portioned out the NTFS
drive and set to install Xandros 2.0 Deluxe (X2D). The installer
doesn’t look much different then the one I saw in 1.0 and 1.1, with
the exception of the screens talking about the new features it
could be exactly the same. I chose the complete install and off it
went, no hassles and no problems. Root password setup and user
created. In all the setup was simple and straightforward…”

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