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Asus joins the fun with a cheap laptop using a Xandros based OS.

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underthelinux

1 year 1 week 5 days 16 hours ago

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I've been looking, but i can't

I've been looking, but i can't seem to find any comments regarding the Xandros OS. Does anyone have an opinion?

Also, the OS seems to custom tailored to the laptop. Does that mean that i'll have to wokr extra hard to get another distro to work flawlessly? (Does Xandros support = Linux support, or is there proprietary stuff involved?)

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aboutblank

1 year 1 week 5 days 16 hours ago

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Anyone have BIOS details? The holy

Anyone have BIOS details? The holy grail of free computing now lies in a free BIOS but I am pessimistic about this laptop running one.

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Jimbob

1 year 1 week 5 days 13 hours ago

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In the bullet point specs it says: [...]

In the bullet point specs it says:

"ASUS-customized, Xandros-derived Linux OS"