Robert C. Wittig wrote: >Hello Day, > >Friday, July 9, 2004, 3:14:04 PM, you wrote: > >DB> A lot of you who see this, dont need Xandros. But we all know windoz >DB> users who'd do better getting away from Microsoft and all the sabotage >DB> software that is attacking MS Windows. I've been using Xandros for a few >DB> months now, and happily ran it's predecessor, Corel Debian, for years. > >Heck, I wouldn't mind checking Xandros out... I have a few years Linus >and FreeBSD experience, and know my way around the shells and man >pages fairly well, but most of the time I'm just an end user, >monitoring my auctions, cleaning up images and writing web pages, and >playing games while I wait for stuff to up/down-load. > You wont need shells or man pages. The only thing I've used terminal for is to run FDISK to look at crashed drives. It comes with Mozilla composer. It'll read all the graphic formats on a windows drive. (fat 16,32,nt,xp, or whatever) Has gimp, but I dont do graphic work. AFAIK, it runs both win and nix games but I dont do much of that either.
> >Right now I'm running Windows 2K on a couple boxes (a small LAN), and >it is just about as complex as *nix when you have to do admini tasks. >Xandros sounds like 'NT meets Debian'. > >I'll have to see if I can get lucky on eBay, and snag a copy for less >than retail. >
