On Wednesday 12 January 2005 02:34 am, der.hans wrote:
> Luckily I don't fight much with hardware. I just start ignoring stuff that
> doesn't work :). I would like some end user oriented and/or commercial
> distros based on debian to work out. Stormix was great, but died. Progeny
> was working more closely with debian, but died. Corel had money, but died.
The Corel distribution, though, lives on in the form of Xandros. A few of the
top people in the then collapsing Corel Linux department split off and formed
their own company. Then, they bought out the rights to Corel Linux to use as
the basis of their own distro.
I've used Xandros a bit back in the 2.0 days (worked for them for a spell) and
was really impressed. It has a debian core and still manages to have the
most consistent user experience of any Linux distribution I've used.
In the past, they never had a free version. However, they did include such
things as Crossover Office integrated into the OS. It was very slick if you
wanted to use such things as Word or Quicken or the like. The complexity and
use of wine was *almost* completely hidden from the user. Now, I believe
they do have a free version but it doesn't (obviously) include Crossover.
Definitely worth checking out for Debian fans.
Kurt
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