Xandros

[Ken Moffat]

Harry G wrote:

>After going around and around on the RPM merry go round trying to get the 
>latest Evolution running, I have decided to do the mature thing and try a 
>Debian distro.  (I am joking about the mature thing, not trying Debian).
>
>I really don't have time to learn the ins and outs of Debian, so I was loking 
>at Xandros.
>
>Does anyone have any experience with it?  Is it stable?
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Not xandros, but I use Libranet, a deb distro, and it's very stable, and 
the updating is fantastic. Actually, the new Debian 3.0 is a pretty good 
setup itself. The only problem I had was in setting up the X server.
Any of the deb distros have tons of software and easy updates, 
especially if you have high speed internet access. You won't miss rpm 
hell, but there can be problems with mixing branches; stable, testing 
and unstable. The new Libranet beta is based on testing, but I use 
selected debs from unstable with no problems. I used libranet 2.7, which 
was based on stable debian, and used unstable packages with no problems.
I have heard good things about xandros also.