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Xandros Open Circulation Edition (Free)
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 4:18 pm
by carbon_unit
Xandros has released a free edition of their linux distro called Xandros Open Circulation Edition.
It is free to use and distrubute for non-commercial use.
Fire up some Bittorrent and get it here:
http://www.xandros.com/products/home/de ... intro.html
It comes with Opera installed but Mozilla is just a few clicks away.
Xandros is very easy to install and performs better on older hardware than current mandrake or fedora releases.
It also has very good hardware detection.
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 7:32 am
by carbon_unit
Just to let you know, I installed this on an old 570 with a 333 cpu and 192 meg ram last night.
All the hardware was detected fine and the computer runs smoothly.
The install takes about 30 minutes but would be faster with a quicker processor.
The install was very easy and requires very little knowledge of your hardware.
It seems simple and powerful but not full of eye candy, which keeps in line (to me) with thinkpad design.
I would recommend
Xandros OCE if you want to do a hard drive install or
Knoppix if you don't want to install to the hard drive.
Sorry if I seem to be "Beating the drum" for this product but I think it is the best distro for new windows converts and that is what people here seem to be asking for.
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 5:49 pm
by carbon_unit
Here is a
review with some screenshots if you are interested.
Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:36 pm
by leasure98
You can install Knoppix to hard drive. Just run sudo knoppix-installer from a terminal and there it is.
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 10:18 am
by snoopy_tn
I've had both Redhat/Fedora 3 AND Xandros running on my Thinkpad 770 w/160mb memory. Slow...yes...but it DOES work.
Xandros OCE
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 7:31 pm
by 1stallthewayaj
Hey! I would sho' like to join all you people in your praise of Xandros.
Problem is, I have never been able to get mine to install. I have a CD
that I got off the net. Its been so long ago now, that I have forgotten if
I got it free or had to pay for it. I think I had to pay 10 bucks for it.
Unless I got it mixed up with something else.
My machine is a TP600E...288 MB, 400 MHZ.
AJA
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:12 pm
by carbon_unit
To get it to install on a TP600 you must boot from a floppy and as soon as it starts booting insert the cd.
Floppy
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:37 pm
by 1stallthewayaj
Hi: I appreciate your prompt answer.
But, where do I get a floppy???
'Preciate it...
AJA
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 9:07 pm
by carbon_unit
The 600 had an external floppy drive that plugged into the side of the laptop. A USB floppy drive may work but I am not sure if a 600 can boot from USB or not. I sold my 600 long ago so I can't try it.
Floppy
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 9:26 am
by 1stallthewayaj
I have the drive....I need to know how I get a Boot Disk....
That kind of Floppy!!!
'Preciate it...
A J A
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 5:01 pm
by carbon_unit
1 Boot windows.
2 Insert Xandros cd
3 A menu will pop up and make boot floppy will be an option, or something similar to that. It has been a while since I tried it.
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 5:52 pm
by Kyocera
I had red hat 9 installed on a little 10G hard drive I got from an old fiery print server, problem was finding the drivers, so now it sits in the box This looks llike a cool OS how much space would it need, how do I get bit torrent (or do I need it) and which machine would be easier to find the drivers for T30 or T42?
upgrade for Mandrake7.2
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:08 pm
by 1stallthewayaj
Does anybody know how current a Mandrake 7.2 can get via upgrade???
And for how much???
A J A
Re: upgrade for Mandrake7.2
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:36 pm
by carbon_unit
1stallthewayaj wrote:Does anybody know how current a Mandrake 7.2 can get via upgrade???
And for how much???
A J A
Not very current. Why mess with an old version like that? The newer versions are much better.
I just installed Xandros 3.02 on a T42 and it practically fell on.
Ubuntu works rather well too.
If you can't download it let me know and maybe I can send you a disc.
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:49 pm
by Kyocera
Forgive me but I have not figured out how to copy a prior post with the highlighted background yet.
I went to the bit torrent site and while it is cheap I would only need for the one download. Is unubu free? How many Gigs does it need to run, I have a ten gigger I like to play with.
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:13 pm
by carbon_unit
Kyocera wrote:Forgive me but I have not figured out how to copy a prior post with the highlighted background yet.
Use the "quote" button at the upper right of each post.
Kyocera wrote:I went to the bit torrent site and while it is cheap I would only need for the one download. Is unubu free? How many Gigs does it need to run, I have a ten gigger I like to play with.
Ubuntu will run fine on that. Need me to send you a disc? I have pressed ones of the latest ubuntu.
Check your private messages.
Needed Disk
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:54 am
by 1stallthewayaj
Okay Carbon_unit..... I need that disk. Maybe it will install w/o all that L80
stuff.....
Problem now is getting Mandrake 7.2 off HDD. It just dont want to come off
when I fdisk....
'Preciate it...
A J Albritton
3371 Victory Drive C4
Columbus Ga.
31903
Getting Mandrake Off HDD FWIW
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:21 pm
by 1stallthewayaj
The only way I could get that [censored] Mandrake off my HDD was to put
a factory w98 in the CD Drive and let it clean the disk until just before it installs.....then pull it out and install the other stuff.... when I tried to fdisk
it off, it didnt work!!!
A J A