Couple questions about Xandros

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INTELCRAZY

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What is Xandros like? Can I get someone who isn't very computer literate to use it and it be simple for them?

I was thinking about putting another drive in my current PC, and putting Xandros on it. If I bought an 80Gb HDD and booted the Xandros disk, could I install Xandros without damaging Windows, which is on my 250Gb HDD? I would like to master Xandros, is it compatible with any PC above its requirments? I know there are some Linux users on here, plz help.


Thanks a bunch

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Xandros ?..haha..men thats like putting yourself on a deathbed.
Seriously, don't let the slicky windows interface fool you.

try another distro if the person is computer illiterate.
but yes Xandros support massive hardware (or so they say in their forums):D
this is one distro i had worst experience with but you can try it out, it's easy
to go about like windows but oh the pain to install software thru XN (xandros network, i don't know if it's still going by that name)

but i'm not stopping you feel free to try

EDIT : just posting my experience
 
patrickv said:
Xandros ?..haha..men thats like putting yourself on a deathbed.
Seriously, don't let the slicky windows interface fool you.

try another distro if the person is computer illiterate.
but yes Xandros support massive hardware (or so they say in their forums):D
this is one distro i had worst experience with but you can try it out, it's easy
to go about like windows but oh the pain to install software thru XN (xandros network, i don't know if it's still going by that name)

but i'm not stopping you feel free to try

EDIT : just posting my experience
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What is Debian? Distro? What is all this stuff I need to know?

Should I get Ubuntu for this person?

Thanks
 
Debian is like the father distro
ubuntu and the rest of distro's supporting DEB is the kids (if i may say)

they are made upon debian.
Yes ubuntu is a good start for your friend.
You can also try my favorite lil buddy BLAG linux
www.blagblagblag.org

but anyways your choice as they are both very simple to use.
 
Okay, I will probably use that on my sucky Dell computer. It is 256Mb with a P4 2.8Ghz (533Mhz FSB). I am dually booting this with Windows, how would I do this? Would I just leave room out of my Windows partition?
 
how much is the hard drive. or you can use partition magic and resize your partition and make space for linux, nothing tricky
 
patrickv said:
how much is the hard drive. or you can use partition magic and resize your partition and make space for linux, nothing tricky
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The hard drive is 40Gb, I am already wiping it clean to reinstall Windows. So, I will probably just lower the Windows partition to half and use the other half for Linux.
 
INTELCRAZY said:
The hard drive is 40Gb, I am already wiping it clean to reinstall Windows. So, I will probably just lower the Windows partition to half and use the other half for Linux.
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Good good, whatever distro you will be using hope all works out for ya.

cheers
 
My favorite easy distros are:

Ubuntu
Kubuntu
Xubuntu
Vector

(Vector and Xubntu use XFCE, therefore they are good for low grade computers.

My favorite not-so-easy distro is SuSE.

I couldn't get it to work on my system, but Dreamlinux looks pretty good too.


~Jordan
 
INTELCRAZY said:
The hard drive is 40Gb, I am already wiping it clean to reinstall Windows. So, I will probably just lower the Windows partition to half and use the other half for Linux.
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during the Linux installer it allows you to resize partitions for newer installs of linux. You'll want to make 2, one swap and one for your OS. You should make the swap about double the size of the amount of ram you have or at least about 1 gig.
 
tlarkin said:
during the Linux installer it allows you to resize partitions for newer installs of linux. You'll want to make 2, one swap and one for your OS. You should make the swap about double the size of the amount of ram you have or at least about 1 gig.
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I am setting (approx) 20Gb for Windows and 17Gb for Linux, 3Gb for Swap. Sound Ok?
 
JordanII said:
That sounds fine, I would suggest using Xfce because that's not a lot of HD space. Whatever you do, don't use KDE because it is larger and it would eat up the HD space.

~Jordan
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yes, but I use kde all the time and have no problems with it:rolleyes:
 
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desktop environments.

KDE is similar to windows in some way

gnome - is very simplistic and feature lacking if you ask me

those are the two main destkop environments

xfce is another

most major distros let you choose from gnome or kde during install, so choose which user interface you want. If you are first moving to linux I would suggest kde
 
INTELCRAZY said:
What is Xfce? and KDE? I just plan on using Ubuntu and maybe SimplyMEPIS.
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They are desktop managers. Ubuntu comes with Gnome while Xubuntu comes with Xfce. I haven't used SimplyMepis so I'm not sure what it comes with.

I wrote this explanation up for someone else:

bldgengineer said:
yeah, if ya don't mind :o

This is what gets me, you go to website GNOME website and under "what is GNOME?" The first thing it says is: "GNOME offers an easy to understand desktop for your Linux or UNIX computer"

Well, they ALL say that! :D
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I'll try and explain it. To start, I should explain what a desktop manger is. The desktop manager is pretty much everything you see on you desktop. The icons, the taskbars, and the windows are all controlled by a desktop manager. An example of a desktop manager would be the new DE (short for desktop manager) made by Microsoft called Aero, or Apple Aqua. Gnome, XFCE, and KDE are also desktop managers.

Gnome

Here is the default look of Gnome, it can be customized in many ways.

ubuntu.jpg


I like Gnome because it is simple and it is very customizable. You can get Gnome with Ubuntu. If you have an old system with only 256MB of RAM or less Gnome is not for you, In this case you should use XFCE.

XFCE

This is the default look of XFCE.

Vector.png


XFCE is very lightweight so it runs quite well on older systems. Like Gnome, XFCE is very customizable; however, unlike Gnome, XFCE boasts it's very own composite manager. You may wonder what a composite manager is. Simply said, a composite manager manages an operating systems transparency and such. You can get XFCE with both Vector Linux and Xubuntu Linux.

KDE

This is the KDE default look.

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I have not used KDE very much because I don't like it near as much as Gnome or XFCE, but then everyone has opinions. KDE is quite customizable. I'm not sure if it comes with a composite manager or not, maybe someone else knows.

Well, that pretty much covers it. I hope this was helpful.

~Jordan
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