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| Thread ID: 62742 | 2005-10-18 03:16:00 | Just installed Mandriva 2006 | Mackin_NZ (6958) | PC World Chat |
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| 397304 | 2005-10-18 03:16:00 | This is a very polished Linux distribution. I bought the Power Pack DVD from Linux System Labs (http://www.lsl.com.au) and installed it on my test machine. Everything is working sweetly. It cost less than $30 incl postage and comes with all the software you'll ever need, and then some. Who needs Windows. :D |
Mackin_NZ (6958) | ||
| 397305 | 2005-10-18 05:05:00 | You have a question that needs answering with this post? Can't see one, so I'm moving this to the Chat forum. :) Looking at that online retailer you linked to, they are selling Ubuntu for $9 when you can get the pressed CDs sent to you for free by the Ubuntu team?? |
Jen (38) | ||
| 397306 | 2005-10-18 05:48:00 | Blah, who needs fancy paid distros when you can get Xandros OCE for free ;) | Edward (31) | ||
| 397307 | 2005-10-18 06:02:00 | You can get Mandriva for free too, but not for a couple of weeks yet. I didn't want to wait. :) | Mackin_NZ (6958) | ||
| 397308 | 2005-10-18 06:05:00 | Would you like to tell us where Edward? | worl (8599) | ||
| 397309 | 2005-10-18 06:12:00 | Would you like to tell us where Edward? Sure. Simply follow the directions here (www.xandros.com). As always, it's common courtesy to seed the torrent afterwards :) Great operating system. It's the only linux distro I've come across that actually is the easiest dostro that they claim to be. <3 the auto updater. Very easy to use and quick. Amazing software range too by default |
Edward (31) | ||
| 397310 | 2005-10-18 06:48:00 | Xandros is a good distro there's no doubting that. My only gripe is that when i tried it some months back when v3.0 first came out, they did not have a SMP kernel. Thre was an experimental one but it wasn't stable (at least not on my machine). No doubt they've fixed that now though. |
Mackin_NZ (6958) | ||
| 397311 | 2005-10-19 00:23:00 | If people don't buy retail versions, the supply of free versions will die out. Mandriva/Mandrake had major financial problems for a while, and I often thought that they were releasing their new versions for free download too soon. The prices aren't exorbitant ... and a retail version gets vendor support. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 397312 | 2005-10-19 07:24:00 | I didnt think the default range of apps that came with Xandros was all that great.... It was lacking quite a lot when I tried it last. They had the bare essentials in the XandrosNetworks updater app-thingy and I wasnt really all too impressed. Certainly nothing by the standards of Gentoo's 14,000 packages, and similar for Debian/SuSE AFAIK. Of course you'll never have 14,000 apps on your system, but its nice to know that if I want something, chances are its just "emerge appname" and it'll be done :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 397313 | 2005-10-19 08:37:00 | I didnt think the default range of apps that came with Xandros was all that great.... It was lacking quite a lot when I tried it last. They had the bare essentials in the XandrosNetworks updater app-thingy and I wasnt really all too impressed. Certainly nothing by the standards of Gentoo's 14,000 packages, and similar for Debian/SuSE AFAIK. Of course you'll never have 14,000 apps on your system, but its nice to know that if I want something, chances are its just "emerge appname" and it'll be done :)Even codecs for Kaffeine as I found out last night ... 'emerge win32codecs' :D BTW, has anyone written a man women yet? :p One really needs to be written, especially now the pmsd has been set loose :D |
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