Hi Everyone,
I just wanted to post in here and relate some of my experiences with Xandros.
First a little background.
For a long time, I've been very dissilusioned with Microslouch and their systems. The upcoming arrival of Vista just fills me with dread. As if we didn't have enough problems with everything we do being monitored, we now have further "enhancements" of the Windows system including their new "Live" suite.
So, it was time to take a more serious look at the Linux world for me. I've obviously been using an Apache server for quite a while, as have most of you in here, I suspect. This has proven to be slighty helpful.
I picked Xandros simply because a family member had a subscription to their deluxe packages going back to version 2. The fact that it is primarily also based upon the Debian distro made it appealing to me.
So far, I've been very impressed with my re-acquaintance with Linux and Xandros.
The hardware detection seemed to work very well, and I've not really had too many issues so far. I wouldn't recommend getting back on the Linux bandwagon to people unless you're prepared to put in some time reading and learning. I'm fortunate, in that I like to study and I'm a bit of a geek at heart.
The studying side of it really only comes in if you want to customize things. I'm also doing a little ongoing capability study here at home to see if a Linux distro can readily replace all off the functions that I currently enjoy on Windows. Thus far things are looking good on that score, but it's very early days.
Hopefully, I can get all of this to a stage where I can completely ignore Bill and his followers' manic obsessions with control....
Cheers
I just wanted to post in here and relate some of my experiences with Xandros.
First a little background.
For a long time, I've been very dissilusioned with Microslouch and their systems. The upcoming arrival of Vista just fills me with dread. As if we didn't have enough problems with everything we do being monitored, we now have further "enhancements" of the Windows system including their new "Live" suite.
So, it was time to take a more serious look at the Linux world for me. I've obviously been using an Apache server for quite a while, as have most of you in here, I suspect. This has proven to be slighty helpful.
I picked Xandros simply because a family member had a subscription to their deluxe packages going back to version 2. The fact that it is primarily also based upon the Debian distro made it appealing to me.
So far, I've been very impressed with my re-acquaintance with Linux and Xandros.
The hardware detection seemed to work very well, and I've not really had too many issues so far. I wouldn't recommend getting back on the Linux bandwagon to people unless you're prepared to put in some time reading and learning. I'm fortunate, in that I like to study and I'm a bit of a geek at heart.
The studying side of it really only comes in if you want to customize things. I'm also doing a little ongoing capability study here at home to see if a Linux distro can readily replace all off the functions that I currently enjoy on Windows. Thus far things are looking good on that score, but it's very early days.
Hopefully, I can get all of this to a stage where I can completely ignore Bill and his followers' manic obsessions with control....
Cheers
