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That means the newly arrived emigrants from proprietary land might find Linux a little less intimidating than they otherwise might have. Or at least they might if they choose to theme their Xandros desktop that way. Xandros detected the fact that I had a serial mouse connected to the docking station — I prefer rolling the rodent to thumbing a track ball — and it worked just fine. The track ball and its side-buttons were non-responsive while the mouse was connected, but once I removed it they were functional as well.

The built-in IBM Ethernet card worked just fine after the install. No surprise in that. Linux installs handle this type of thing routinely these days, unlike Windows, which sends you scampering off to find a driver from the hardware vendor.

The built-in Intel wireless card was a pleasant surprise, however. In fact, subsequent attempts on my part to configure the wireless card manually resulted in nothing but frustration. Whether the problem is me or the hardware is moot.

SUSE 9. I had to go in and reset the resolution following its install. Not so with Xandros. Once again, it just worked, no questions asked. There is a complete installation ready for you when you finish the basic install, without having to access the second CD containing additional applications of the Deluxe Edition at all.

I did just that by double-clicking on Xandros Networks icon. In very short order, my local software database had been synced with the Xandros server, and I had also learned there were no waiting updates.

Every distribution seems to be making choices for you these days, and Xandros is no different. You never know when you might have to embed a spreadsheet in some dog-and-pony show for marketing. Too easy, maybe — more on that further down. There is a complete list of all the applications available as part of Xandros 3 on the Xandros Web site. Accessories include various readers and viewers for fax, PDF, and other things.

Crossover Office gets its own menu, and there is one for Games as well. In the Graphics category, there is a paint program, Digicam, and Kooka for your scanner. CrossOver Office is going to be a big selling point for this version of Xandros, and if you have indispensable Windows applications that are on the supported list like Quicken, various Microsoft Office versions, and so on it can provide you with an end to dual-booting to get them those apps. I told CrossOver Office to run Notepad for me and it did so without any qualms.

There is also a voice-over-IP application and a Usenet newsreader. All in all, the glass is more than half full. I searched for X-Chat in the Xandros Network repository, but found no joy. All commercial distributions share this same quandary. So the utility of a specific distribution for you often hinges on two questions: how easy it is to add the software that you want or need, and what are the consequences of doing so.

It turns out that expanding the universe of installable packages is a snap with the Xandros. Before I learned there was an easier way, this is how I added X-Chat.

The second fetched X-Chat and all its prerequisites and installed them for me. The entire process took less than a minute. Did I say there was an easier way? Yes, and there is. It can all be done from within Xandros Networks, without having to go to the command line to run apt-get manually.

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