On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Day Brown wrote: > Which looks like a new market model, to give away the software, but > offer to sell the hardcopy manual. Beats the hell out of a global > monopoly in operating systems. Xandros wants 128 meg DRAM, but Corel > works fine on an older PC with 64; maybe 32 if you're careful. However, > Corel only has Netwscape 4.7, which is difficult to update.
It's not clear from your post whether you've understood that Xandros has now made a version of their 2.0 OS available for free download. It's called Xandros Personal edition. I downloaded it and did a test install. I can confirm that it installs and runs in a machine with 64MB RAM (P2 233). It's a bit slow, but it works and was stable. Suse's free download edition (made available after Xandros announced their free edition) would not even run its installer in 64 MB RAM on the same machine. Xandros installer, on the other hand, reverted to an ansi-ish text mode installer that I actually liked alot better than the gui interfaces they use for most modern installers. James
