xandros for free?

[Ken Moffat]

Leon Goldstein wrote:

> Net Llama! wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Ken Moffat wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>> Not spam, just curious....
>>>>
>>>> http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=202092111&adid=17654&dcaid=17654
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Standard edition of xandros for $35 with a $35 rebate. Anyone know
>>>> anything specific about xandros? According to the site this is
>>>> selling well.
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Its another Debian clone.  They were giving it away at LinuxWorld in SF
>> last year too.  Other than that, i know nothing about it.
>>
>>  
>>
> Xandros is a clone of Corel Linux, and inherits the same nasty feature
> from CLOS: fooze.
> Take a look at http://www.archlug.org/kwiki/XandrosAndLILO
> before installing Xandros on a system with other OS's and a bootloader
> other than Xandros' LILO.
> When you install it on a multi-boot system, disable /sbin/fooze
> immediately after you boot into Xandros.
>
Thanks...

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ken