Mandriva's Rocky Rebirth

[Liam Proven]

On 21 July 2010 23:16, Chan Chung Hang Christopher
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>
> What I am really sad to see was the what could have been Corel Linux OS.
> They had a gui smb/cifs browser long before any other distro.

Corel LinuxOS was indeed a ground-breaking and very impressive distro.
I think I gave it one or two very favourable reviews, way back when.

[Googles] Yeah, here's one:

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/software/2188/corel-linuxos-1

But it didn't die, even though its parent stabbed it in the back. It
became Xandros, which was also pretty damned good in its time:

http://www.pcauthority.com.au/Review/17662,xandros-desktop.aspx

Xandros went off to chase the netbook market and let their desktop
version wither on the vine, which is a bit of a shame, but probably
was commercially sensible at the time. It's hard to go up against
Ubuntu.



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