Comments on: Am I the Only One Who Thinks Xandros Buying Linspire was a Good Move?

By: Brad Koch

Brad Koch — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:49:16 +0000

I honestly don’t see what good this does for either party. IMO, neither of them were very good distros anyway. Oh well; we’ll watch and see what happens.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:24:30 +0000

not sure why you say 2 negatives, do u think really think that asus piked xandros to ship on their new breakthrough pc by flipping a coin? nah, doubt it. i have a eeepc and the modified version of xandros is a perfect compliment for this device, yep i could change it – but whats the point, i use this pc for portability, and wireless browsing and email. maybe a little wp here and there, i have other machines for full fledged processing. i remember when microsoft had a plan in the original windows ce days to put skinny down nt as a windows ce replacement, dumb. whats the point. u can make a hurcluean effort to get solaris to run on an old 80286, so what. all the crap i here about asus sometimes, yet the distro xandros works wonderfully for the purpose it was designed. remember asus was the customer and apparently they r happy. in a growing market someone has to lead, and that includes gobbling up the injured. i like it.

By: Boycott Novell » No, Virginia, There Won’t be Spire Under Xandros

Boycott Novell » No, Virginia, There Won’t be Spire Under Xandros — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:35:35 +0000

[...] Linux?” He points to this article. It was either that or closing down then. Here is why Xandros will merely inherit Linspire’s problems (too negatives don’t make a positive). The Xandros OS is a horrible show of what Linux could [...]