Xandros

[SlayerMan]

Hi all,

did anyone of you check out the latest Xandros? I think it's very impressive from the user-friendlyness point of view... and they even offer an SAP-client out-of-the-box...

[SunnyRabbiera]

Xandros is fair, but I think you can get better for free.
The most major issue I have with xandros is that its notoriously easy to break.

[darksong]

I would but i don't like the £50 price tag on it, i would rather purchase something like WinXP or a gym membership.

[linuxwizard]

I am still using Xandros 3 on/off I bought it 1 1/2 months before version 4 came out last year. I worked with it for 6 months it is a real disappointment. Very small repositories very difficult to install and like SunnyRabbiera it is easy to break it. You have to be careful all the time what you do. I was going to upgrade to version 4 and than decided not it is not worth the money. After that first 6 months started looking for another distro that is when i found Ubuntu/Kubuntu. Anything that Xandros comes up with would be still a step back in time compared to Ubuntu/Kubuntu. From what i have seen on xandros forum their is not that big of difference from V3 &V4.

[kazuya]

Xandros was great at the 3.0.1 OCE version, but not as easily customizable as some of the others. It was slightly slower in performance and not as bleeding edge. It is good, but there are just more feature rich distros out there like Ubuntu, Zenwalk, Sabayon, Mepis, Vector Linux, pclinuxos, dreamlinux, etc.

It is stable, but their repo is much smaller than most. It was the first distro that made me totally erase windows xp. It is a great newbie OS, but it mainly catered to kde {not gnome or others.}

This was why I left it.

[Frak]

I am very dissapointed with Xandros, I run Xandros Home-Premium 4.1, and it is very easy to break, not to mention it used an SMP kernel even though I run a UNI processor, P4, while it thought I was using a Dual core processor, it locked up on Startup and Shutdown, not to mention running parallels, VMWare, and Win4Lin is impossible, Innotek VirtualBox was the only thing that worked, and its supposed "compatability" with RPM's is just alien working in the background, worst thing is the way they make you pay for already free programs such as Inkscape and GIMP, you can use the Debian repo's, but they're outdated.

Very dissapointed, even Linspire 5-0 was better than this.

[darthchaosofrspw]

Hi all,

did anyone of you check out the latest Xandros? I think it's very impressive from the user-friendlyness point of view... and they even offer an SAP-client out-of-the-box...

It's okay, but a lot of Xandros 4.0/4.1 installs have a major bug which makes the CPU think it's running at 10% of its actual speed, making Xandros run at a snail's pace. (Example: My desktop CPU is 2.14 GHz. When I had X4 installed, the command less /proc/cpuinfo reported that my CPU was running at around 214 MHz.)

I've never had any troubles with Ubuntu, which is now on the desktop. Ubuntu is now my favorite OS. I'm gonna download Feisty this weekend, but I requested an Ubuntu Feisty CD about 10 minutes ago thru ShipIt, and when I get it, I plan on using it as a backup copy.