Zandros Linux?

DragonDon · 03-07-2004, 08:10 PM

A friend of mine mentioned this to me.

Does anyone know where I can findout more info? Google doesn't show them as having a site(at least it's not showing up...). Information seems to be a bit scarce.

DragonDon · 03-07-2004, 08:14 PM

Err...never mind...helps if it's spelled correctly...

Xandros.

vincebs · 03-07-2004, 08:16 PM

It's called Xandros, which started as Corel Linux. The company is based in Ottawa just like Corel.

www.xandros.com
http://www.distrowatch.org/table.php...bution=xandros

DragonDon · 03-07-2004, 08:23 PM

Thanks Vince, was just 2 seconds ahead of ya

Ok, then since I'm on a small roll here...

How do they get away with charging for their OS?

Perhaps I still haev to understand such things as Open Source and such.

But, to take a stab....Red Hat does so because they choose to. But Xandros can charge as long as they don't take credit for the Linux parts they did not create?

vectordrake · 03-07-2004, 09:54 PM

You pay for technology that is not shared back with the community. you pay for a good implementation of Codeweavers technology. And, you pay for it in a tight package. Its been rated well for what it was intended for. They have a good support record, as far as I know.

samsbox · 03-11-2004, 06:48 AM

I read that Xandros 2 is supposed to be quite good, although the price is a bummer, however I havent used it personnally so I wouldnt know too much