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Re: Xandros anybody?

nelz — Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:05 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:05 pm

Damn! Sorry to disappoint you again

Re: Xandros anybody?

Rhakios — Sun Jun 05, 2005 1:26 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 1:26 pm

Oh look, it's going to be on this months Linux Magazine, so let's have it on the LXF cover disc as well so that I can have yet another copy

Re: Xandros anybody?

ryptyde — Sun Jun 05, 2005 3:10 am

Author: ryptyde

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 3:10 am

After having to fiddle to no avail in pursuit of a dial-up connection with Mandriva and SUSE 9.2 gave Xandros a whirl and it was delightful.

I damned near collapsed in a state of euphoria at its ease of installing and set-up.

Here's a fair resemblance of self after the install:

Used the Gimp to process the screen-capture.

Re: Xandros anybody?

kevanf1 — Wed May 18, 2005 5:57 pm

Author: kevanf1

Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 5:57 pm

Excellent Thank you for that.

Kevan

Re: Xandros anybody?

nelz — Wed May 18, 2005 4:19 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 4:19 pm

Consider it on the todo list.

Re: Xandros anybody?

kevanf1 — Wed May 18, 2005 2:21 pm

Author: kevanf1

Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 2:21 pm

So it's just a case of LXF asking Xandros if they can include it on a DVD. Ok, what about it then LXF? If they say no fine. This is a forum thread asking about Xandros after all, even though it seems to have forked onto other stuff

Re: Xandros anybody?

doctorflange — Tue May 17, 2005 11:50 am

Author: doctorflange

Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 11:50 am

Xandros 3 OCE was on the May 2005 edition of PCW

RE: Re: RE: Xandros anybody?

smita034 — Tue May 17, 2005 10:51 am

Author: smita034

Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 10:51 am

Which means you can if you ask them *pokes you in direction of their email address*

[Edit]
Seems i was on page 2 thinking it was page 3, that was in reply to the Xandros post about proir consent.

Re: Xandros anybody?

kevanf1 — Mon May 16, 2005 5:50 pm

Author: kevanf1

Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 5:50 pm

It is difficult to stick with one distro. But, there does come a time when you suddenly install one and you suddenly realise that,yes, this is the one for me. I had that happen when I put SuSE 9.1 on a drive on my old PC. I won the full set including manuals so I was at an advantage then but there are some very good off the shelf books around for many distros.

You mentioned Ubuntu and were rather nonplussed by it? Have you taken a look at Kubuntu? It's Debian like Ubuntu but instead of the Gnome desktop it has KDE, hence the 'K'ubuntu Now, I liked Ubuntu but wasn't enraptured enough for it to make me think I wanted to move to it from SuSE. I'm not a Gnome fan, which doesn't mean I hate it or anything as I do quite like it I simply prefer KDE. Kubuntu I like a lot and could happily use it in a productive environment.

To get back on topic.... Xandros. I presume a deal must have been done with Linux User and Developer then because they carried Xandros on one of their cover disks I think it was last month?

RE: Re: RE: Xandros anybody?

nelz — Sun May 15, 2005 1:37 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 1:37 pm

It's a bit like the Sun licence, where one paragraph says "You can do what you want" and another says "Oh no you can't!"

RE: Re: RE: Xandros anybody?

skecs — Sun May 15, 2005 8:42 am

Author: skecs

Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 8:42 am

Sorry, missed that bit!!

RE: Re: RE: Xandros anybody?

nelz — Sat May 14, 2005 3:18 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 3:18 pm

Just above the part you quoted, you'll find

Quote:

(g) not distribute the Software Product with magazines or books except with the prior written consent of Xandros.

Re: RE: Xandros anybody?

skecs — Sat May 14, 2005 3:41 am

Author: skecs

Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 3:41 am

nelz wrote:

There is the "Open Desktop" edition, but the licence specifically prohibits copying or redistribution. There's nothing in the GPL to stop someone bundling GPLed software with proprietary, so the whole collection cannot be freely distributed. SUSE used to do this before they were acquired by Novell and Red Hat stopped us including their distro on the cover discs from about RH8.

Hi all,

It's funny how things work out ) - I have just bought "apc magazine" in Australia and was surprised to find Xandros Open Circulation Edition as an ISO on the DVD. I have checked the EULA and it can be included and distributed. The relevant section of the EULA is below and the full EULA is available at: http://www.xandros.com/products/home/desktopoc/dsk_oc_license.html

Quote:

EULA

6. DISTRIBUTION

(a) Subject to the restrictions contained in Section 5 hereof, You may distribute copies of the Software Product provided that:

1. a copy of this EULA is included with the Software Program and the user of the Software Program agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions hereof;

2. You do not charge a license fee for the Software Product, provided that you may charge a nominal fee to compensate you for the direct costs associated with Your redistribution of the Software Product;

3. the Software Product has not been altered or modified in any way;

4. the Software Product is the most recent version made available by Xandros;

5. the following copyright notice shall be conspicuously displayed in such distribution: "Xandros Desktop OS Open Circulation Edition, (c) Xandros Corporation 2003-2005. All rights reserved."; and

6. You comply with all export laws, rules and regulations in the jurisdictions where the Software Product, including any Software Programs, are exported or re-exported from time to time.

Re: Xandros anybody?

nordle — Sat May 14, 2005 12:08 am

Author: nordle

Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 12:08 am

I know next to nothing, but visualy I think Python is nicer as its uses white space and indenting to dictate where sections of code begin and end, instead of in java where its covered in squigly brackets.
So it solves both the syntax issue while keeping uniformed looking code too.

Re: Xandros anybody?

1slipperyfish — Fri May 13, 2005 11:46 pm

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 11:46 pm

charming i have been looking into c programming (sorry it's the wrong forum) how basic is that in fact we may as well code basic or python rather than c i thought we had gotten away from all that i know i bang on about it but java is so clean compared with c i found the same with c++ it's just so crude
sorry now i've had my moan
paul