Posts by strawnman

Glad to help out Engineer. I beleive you will find that there are many distros that will suffice to meet your needs. And if no one has welcomed you to Linux, Let me extend on behalf of all Linux users a hardy Welcome. Eric

Hee Hee, mmarkin, I think evaluating kde v. gnome will eventually lead to a discussion on different distros as I mentioned earlier. but you are right we need not make a distro war here. Eric

Good points abf. You should consider taking a peak at the business 3.0 that will be out later this year, or the next 4.0. Some of your problems will be solved. I can tell you a little secret. There is work on a simple wizard for...

I am sad to hear you didn't stay with Xandros. But like all free versions you are getting what you pay for, and so distro surfing will generally lead you to the next latest and greatest. That is of course until the wave takes you to...

I agree with the dell 9300. I didn't like dell products for quite some time, but they have improved since their early 2000 era where their hardware simply failed to meet standards. Eric

I agree, but it is an option many windows converts look for, as they want the .exe-like envirorment. Hee Hee, with Xandros I use Xandros Networks for free, which does the exact same thing as click and run, but not as commercialized. We...

Well this dispute is new here, but not new to linux. You should note that there are some up comming copetitors to the two powerhouses. As a few have mentioned here and elsewhere Enlightenment, X-Fce, and several others. As others have...

Engineer, You might consider trying oce from Xandros. It may handle your boot loader problem better. It doesn't use Grub, but instead lilo. Now there are those who swear by Grub, but for the most part Lilo is a very capable boot...

Here is another called Crystalized Noia; as you can see Xandros is not only functional, but can be very pretty as well. Eric

Here is screenshot of my Xandros looking like OSX. Eric