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| 226324 | 2004-04-01 00:46:00 | Hi guys The much touted Xandros OS 2 SE is offered on this months PCAuthority. I've installed it, and is running nicely. I'm not yet ready to cross the 'ultimate' threshold and go 100% linux, but if I did, Xandros would be the way. A bit bloated in my opinion - not much in the way of customising the installation, apart from changing the non-core stuff. Standard installs take about 1.1 GB of room on your HD, but the minimalcould go as low as 800 MB. Nice. Plays DVD's, and most media files out of the box, but I installed extra codecs easily. Only prob I have now is that some of my Real Media files don't have audio - not a biggy, though. I'll leave it at that Rev Species 116 PS Remember - Issue 77 PC Authority - $8.95 |
revspecies116 (3916) | ||
| 226325 | 2004-04-02 05:24:00 | Got mine this morning.... Just installed it alongside Slackware. Works great. |
rmcb (164) | ||
| 226326 | 2004-04-03 12:38:00 | Just installed Xandros. It partitioned the drive without disturbing the Windows files. Installed sound, video, sisi900 ethernet, set up the DSE Router all with no input from me. The only thing it won't do is my Aiptek Camera. I don't think it has found the Scanner either. I am using it now to to write this. Another thing I like is the fact that they have only supplied a few of the better programs as defaults. With Mandrake there were 100,s of programs and it was very confusing. It still has the Linux crappy fonts, I will try to import some Windows ones. Does anyone know what to do about Firewalls & Antivirus? Its a bit like sex without a condom at the moment :) |
Mzee (158) | ||
| 226327 | 2004-04-03 17:25:00 | Mzee> I cant remember if Xandros comes with Digikam and/or SANE, but you should be able to grab them off the Xandros Networks. Otherwise, you can try mounting your Camera like a USB Thumbdrive! I couldnt believe the lack of programs myeslf either, but they've tried to stick to integration etc... Importing fonts isnt that hard either. Anti-virus? This (Although it may look/feel a lot like Windows) is Linux... No antivirus... There's companys such as Grisoft (see grisoft.com) who make AVG that have created a version for Linux mail-servers which will scan for Windows viruses, but thats all really.. Look into Firestarter for a Linux Firewall. Ive not used it but it seems to be quite well recommended from what I understand. Hope this helps Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 226328 | 2004-04-03 20:36:00 | >Does anyone know what to do about Firewalls & Antivirus? For Antivirus you can use F-Prot (www.f-prot.com) - it is free for home users. It is also a command line only program, there is no GUI available. However, it is not hard to use and the manual is easy to follow. As Chill mentioned, there are very, very few viruses about that target Linux but F-Prot will scan for Window viruses as well that may arrive on a email attachment (they are harmless in the Linux environment). I used to use Firestarter (http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/) which is really good, but I broke it by upgrading to the 2.6 kernel which it doesn't support at the moment. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 226329 | 2004-04-03 23:01:00 | Has anyone used the latest Cross over? I did years ago but it wasn't any good. Must be better now. One point. Please remember to make a start floppy. If you are using a third party boot manager (Boot Magic) you may have to use the floppy to access the Lilo boot manager to make Xandros the default. My scanner has been found & issued with a driver (Mustek 1200 UB Plus), don't know if it works yet, as I havn't found a Graphics program which support scanners yet. I will probably install the Gimp or similar. I am so impressed that I am thinking of laying out $145 for the boxed version of Xandros. (This one is from PC Expert Magazine) |
Mzee (158) | ||
| 226330 | 2004-04-03 23:29:00 | try pbtechnologies.co.nz and save yourself $45 :) | |llus|oN (645) | ||
| 226331 | 2004-04-04 01:11:00 | Digikam and Firestarter are either installed with Xandros 2 De Luxe, or you can download them from the Xandros website. Crossover works really well. I stupidly installed Office XP for some reason I can't recall now) and was really really miffed (euphemism alert) to find it installed IE and Outlook Express even though I told it to only install Word. It all worked fine via Crossover as did other Doze programmes. I tried to uninstall Office and all its associated garbage, but it left all of the garbage behind. The only way to get rid of it all and regain a pristine Linux environment was to uninstall and then reinstall Crossover from the installation disks. That unfortunately means that on reinstall, Crossover is no longer associated with .exe files, and took a while to discover how to reassociate them so it all works again. |
John H (8) | ||
| 226332 | 2004-04-04 02:30:00 | The support page at xandros.com is well worth a visit, there is a wealth of information there. The forums page is a goldmine of solutions to problems. Xandros come with RealOne player and that has some bugs apparently, I certainly found it wouldnt all my real media, some it would , some it wouldnt for some reason. There is a solution here: forums.xandros.com which tells how to remove RealOne and install RealPlayer8. Since doing that no problems with my Real Media files. In Xandros Networks is facility via Edit-Set Applications Sorces, for installing applications either from CDROM , the Xandros distribution site, or the Debian unsupported site. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 226333 | 2004-04-04 22:52:00 | There are two GUI's available for FProt (that i know of). The first is XFProt (web.tiscali.it) and the second is QTFProt (www.kde-apps.org). Also I use Firestarter and it seems to do the job nicely. :) |
hotwater (2847) | ||
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