Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Xandros Desktop Home Edition 4.0 review
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> | As I said in the introduction, this should be the GNU/Linux distribution
> | that you recommend to friends and family when you don't want to spend a
> | lot of time helping them. Xandros is a snap to install and use, and
> | includes a good paper manual and commercial phone and email support,
> | so you can safely absolve yourself of the infuriating string of
> | "how-do-I" questions that computer illiterates sap your time with. If
> | you yourself are looking for a good way out of Windows, Xandros Desktop
> | Home Premium Edition is your ticket to desktop computing happiness.
> `----
>
> http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/43/1/
When I was after one for my brother-in-law I hovered between xandros and
linspire for a while. They seemed on paper to be pretty much the same. In
the end I put Linspire on his machine.
He has gotten along with it very well, I had him signup for the Gold member
which gave him access to the commercial software as well as the free stuff.
You get a very genuine discount on the commercial stuff.
He is very happy with it, his wife is happy too because he has gone from a
couch potato to a desk potato, which is apparently a better sort of potato.
I have looked at it myself a couple of weeks after I installed it for him.
The logs show that they hasn't been any major problems. The only thing I
did find were ten badly named files in his user directory. In the lines of,
???@@@__ _$%$Âx?xx
They were empty files from various dates and times and didn't align with
anything in the logs at those times. I had to remove them via nodes.
So I have him looking for those in the hope I can narrow it down to what is
creating them.
But otherwise Linspire has proven to be stable and very easy for a novice to
use.
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