Xandros Linux Walk-Through

After telling Xandros to install, this is your first big decision on the setup. Easy enough for you?

All of this basic setup runs automatically. Foul something up? You can always re-run the First Run Wizard.

Setting up your peripherals, such as a printer, is also simple, even if, as in this case, its a network printer on a Windows server on a Windows network.

Making Xandros look and feel like Windows requires a simple one-step choice. On System Behavior choose Windows.

Ta-da, suddenly Xandros looks, and acts, a lot like Windows XP.

A little farther along, Ive placed the main bar on the top, where I like it, and Im getting ready to install Internet Explorer 6. Installing Windows applications with CrossOver is as easy as installing them in native XP.

Besides having Linuxs built-in security, Xandros makes setting up firewalls easy. Dont know networking? Just go with the defaults, and youll be fine.

Updating Xandros is also easy, and unlike Microsoft, they never try to sneak an update in on you.

Unlike Vista, which seemingly wants your password and permission every time you want to wipe your nose, Xandros only asks you for your administrator password when youre making a significant change to your system.

Yes, thats right, you can drop Xandros in a Windows Active Directory network and it works just fine. Try that with other Linuxes, or Vista for that matter.

Notice all those file resource options? Windows servers, NFS servers, local drives, whatever, Xandros make getting to file systems easy no matter what theyre running on.

And here we are at my complete desktop. In the foreground, weve got Internet Explorer, OpenOffice with a document thats on an AD server and Firefox with Acrobat showing a PDF. Xandros isnt just ready for work. Its working.

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