[Linux4christians] Xandros & Thunderbird

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Wednesday 14 June 2006 8:11 am, Rachel Ramey wrote:
> The new Tiger Direct catalog is offering "Xandros Desktop OS" (not
> pre-installed in anything, unfortunately!).  It *sounds* good, but is it
> really?  Can anyone give me feedback on it?  Does it use RPM?  (I hate the
> ones that only use built-in package listings, because they inevitably do
> not install the appropriate modem drivers, requiring me to go online (!) to
> download the right one.)
>
>
> Also, how does the Mozilla mail program - I think it's called Thunderbird?
> - compare to Outlook Express?

There are two VERY easy distros, Freespire and Fedora Core (Fedora is RPM 
based coming from Red Hat, and Freespire is Debian based coming from 
Linspire).  Ubuntu is a very nice debian based distro, I use Kubuntu now as I 
like KDE better than  Gnome.  Linspire has a "Click-n-Run" application 
repository that you have to pay for.  This isn't in itself bad because of 
some of the apps they include, but if you are looking for free stuff go with 
Fedora or Ubuntu or a derivative.

If you want a more "outlook" type email client Either Kontact (in KDE) or 
Evolution (Gnome based) are better suited.  If you are just looking for 
straight up email Thunderbird will do you well.  The advantage for 
Thunderbird is cross platform abilities.  Thunderbird has a client for 
Windoze, Linux and Mac (I believe).

I would recommend you try Fedora Core 5 as its RPM based, like you want, easy 
to install, and very solid right now.  From all I can gather its more "out of 
the box" workable than Ubuntu, even though you may have to manually setup 
some Multimedia apps.  I haven't tried it yet (I have core 3 and 4 but not 
5).

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See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
John 3:16!