Mandriva's Rocky Rebirth

[Christopher Chan]

On Thursday, July 22, 2010 07:44 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> 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:

I know that it 'lived' on but Xandros did not feel the same...and no 
Wordperfect and so on too. Parent involuntarily stabbed it in the back 
at the behest of Microsoft.


>
> 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.
>
>
>

/me shrugs. Xandros failed to wow me...