[ltp] Xandros

SOTL linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 3 Jan 2005 00:30:49 -0500


On Sunday 02 January 2005 08:03 pm, Ted Cook wrote:
> SOTL wrote:
> snip
>
> > Thanks for the feedback. I could just feel it in my bones that that
> > article was a bunch of !@#%&*.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Frank
>
> I think you are being a bit harsh in your assessment of the article. If=
 I
> am not mistaken, the author, Joe Barr, is well known and well respected
> within the Linux community, dating back to the original LinuxWorld webz=
ine.
>
> I've been running Xandros 2.5 Business since August on a T42, and with
> some exceptions that appear to be handled in the new 3.0 release (wifi
> support), I've been very pleased. If you are a non-technical user like
> me, who has no need or desire to tinker with or compile source, you wil=
l
> likely be very please with Xandros. If you like to get in up to your
> elbows modifying and configuring your system, this probably isn't the
> distro for you.
>
> -Ted

Harsh not really.

He had the opportunity to include ALL the facts not just SELECTIVE facts.=
=2E

In English there is a word for such called propaganda.

Frank