Talk:Xandros

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Maybe someone could make a screenshot of Xandros' typical file browser. --Michiel Sikma 6 July 2005 22:33 (UTC)

"It is the creator of one of the easiest to use and popular distributions of Linux called Xandros Desktop."
This statement sounds biased and possibly incorrect. Ease of use is subjective and is Xandros really one of the most popular linux distros? I think this should perhaps be reworded to
"It is the creator of the Xandros Desktop which aims to provide ease of use to a mainstream audience." 195.60.16.190 03:20, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] KDE binary incompatibility

Maybe it should be mentioned that the version of KDE included is unique in that you can't run binaries downloaded from anywhere other than Xandros Netowrks. You need to compile from source otherwise.

[edit] GNOME program Speed

"It has been discovered that GNOME-native programs boot up and run faster on Xandros when GNOME is being used as the GUI." I'm not sure this sentence is really objective, without providing some real references. --hub 21:21, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Product Activation

The way the product activation works on Xandros is not what is described. No hardware check is performed unlike on Windows. It is only related to the serial number... It should also be noted that this does not prevent apt-get to work -- hub 15:04, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cost

I modified the cost section as the issue in the Linux community is not actual cost but freedom, as in free speech that is at issue in the community. If a company produces open source software they are following the ideals of the free software movement even if they charge for it. Xandros fails to comply with any of the ideals of the community, although they do release from what I hear some code, presumably to benefit themselves as otherwise they would have to maintain a separate code base. The issue is that they do not release all source code under an open source license that they create. Other companies like Linspire release (as of recent) all source code they create under open source licenses. Linspire does not completely comply with the ideals of the free software foundation in that they bundle third party proprietary software that is deemed necessary for usability of a non-technical users. Then you have more mainstream community distributions such Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, Freespire (OSS edition), Fedora, OpenSUSE, and others that do not include third party prorpitary software and are in full compliance. I'm unaware of any commercial distribution that doesn't include any in-house or 3rd party proprietary software, however Novell's commercial distribution may be the first such case and I may be missing some others that I'm just not aware of.

[edit] Compatability with deb packages

Since Xandros is debian based does that mean it is compatable with deb instal packages? How about rpms? These are important to be considered in the article, espiesially since with programs (such as Opera) that have a Linux and Windows version will run better with the proper Linux version than running the windows version in crossover. A package is theoretically easier for new users than using a tar. Kc4 22:19, 8 January 2007 (UTC)