Re: Xandros review

[Jeff Licquia <jeff@licquia.org>]

On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 19:03, mike808@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> >>> [Xandros, "the distro your mother could use"]
> 
> > > I haven't run any of the new desktop-oriented distros, but I can tell
> > > you who the clear winner is in terms of cooperation and coordination of
> > > effort within the open source community: Lindows.
> > > ...
> > > Not only that, but their CEO has a good track record of doing 
> > > successful
> > > cool stuff.  That's more than I can say for the others.
> 
> A pretty strong endorsement for never running any of their software, 
> and basing all of your opinion on second-hand experience and word-of-mouth.

From my previous post:

"I can tell you this from past personal experience."

That would be "first-hand experience", in case it wasn't clear.

> But, I'll agree with your point on the other CEOs. Mandrake's new one
> is explaining how the previous *US-originated* CEO messed up the company
> grooming it for a dot-com IPO too late, and wound up dot-gone. Hopefully
> the restructuring can get them into a healthier position.
> 
> > I'll second that - Lindows is really nice to just slap on a system and 
> 
> Yeah. Guess you missed this about Lindows and their CEO:
>   http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4417146902.html

Hmm.  Not good.  Then again, I didn't say the CEO was perfect.  When I
met him, he seemed to have more sense than this.

I still stand by my general impression of the company, though.  If
Lindows manages to only screw up a conference in their rise to
prominence, they'll still be doing better than lots of others.


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