Agreed. My EeePC 900 came with Xandros which is crippled in two ways. The desktop in Easy Mode is lame. It is meant to simplify the desktop, but it just limits the user, so that you can't grow. Also you can't come to appreciate the power and depth of Linux. The second reason is that Xandros is too lame for an experienced user to value. When you change to Advanced Mode which anyone with any experience would do, you are left with a KDE desktop circa two years ago and you can't update anything to more recent versions because the repositories are ancient.
Xandros is not repressentative of Linux for many reasons, but the main one is they are trying to make Linux appear and work like Windows and even if they succeed they have only copied something that does not merit copying. You end up with a copy of a second rate OS instead offering an alternative. I am running Xandros, Ubuntu 8.04, Ubuntu 8.10 and PCLOS Minime 2008 on my eeePC. I use Xandros for email only. It loads quickly and the wireless, camera, hibernation and hot keys work out of the box. The others offer more features, but take a little more work to set up. Roy Linux: Fast, friendly, flexible and .... free! Support Open source. <*,)}}+< Only dead fish go with the flow! ----- Original Message ---- From: Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, October 8, 2008 3:40:14 PM Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Changing operating systems requires a change in mindset On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:08:24AM -0700, Linux Canuck wrote: > http://www.itwire. com/content/ view/20992/ 1162/1/1/ > > The above article could answer why Linux netbooks are being returned at a > rate four times greater than Windows ones. I would have posted them together > because they relate, but found it afterwards. > It was mentioned on Slashdot with comments that echo my own feelings. Here in the US at least, there was such a small price difference between the Acer MS and Linux version that there was no reason for a non-Linux user to buy the Linpus lite version. So those of us who did found that we had gotten a very limited system. While with some research, most things were eventually possible, even something as simple and basic as having multiple users required research. Many of the slashdot comments were along the line of, Why are they putting such horrible and/or crippled versions of Linux on most of these machines, with the further addition of using non-compatible hardware making it more difficult to switch to a Linux version of your choice. Dell is, however, using what is apparetly a good Ubuntu remix. Additionally, the Sylvania Meso is doing the same thing. (The Sylvania, which were the Everex, have already gotten such a bad rep from their last version that it might not do any good by now.) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Spike: Whatcha doin', love? Drusilla: I'm naming the stars. Spike: You can't see the stars, love. That's the ceiling. Also it's day. Drusilla: No, I can see them. But I've named them all the same name, and there's terrible confusion. __________________________________________________________________ Connect with friends from any web browser - no download required. Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger for the Web BETA at http://ca.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
