Re: Xandros3 released

[Leon Raymer <leon@neondsl.com>]

Robert,

It sounds like Ubuntu will meet all criteria for wife, mom, and you....a
solid, free-beer Debian with no junk. http://ubuntulinux.org/

Leon

On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 23:14 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
> On Wednesday, Dec 15, 2004, at 22:47 US/Central, 
> mike808@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> > You can have it now for ~$90. Or you can have it in six months for ~$0.
> 
> I was hoping an OC version was available so that I can see how 
> different it is from v2.0 Deluxe.
> 
> > And if you're a Windows Refugee, and thought Xandros 2 might fit the 
> > bill, X3 definitely will.
> 
> Really?!  X2 is working great.  Both the wife and the mom are using it 
> right now.  What they like about it is no so much what it has but 
> rather what it does not have.  It has a browser (Mozilla) and an office 
> suite (OpenOffice.org).  That's all they use.  It doesn't have a 
> billion menu options which would only overwhelm them.  So, for their 
> use, Xandros is ideal.
> 
> Now, if X3 was faster and came with FireFox and a newer version of 
> OpenOffice.org and a better CrossOverOffice (for those Word docs, just 
> in case), then I'd buy it right now.  But I'd really like to 
> try-before-buying, especially since X2 is working so well.
> 
> Regards,
> - Robert
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