[luau] Xandros

[Alvin Murphy]

Here is a copy of a message I sent to Xandros support:
At this point, I think I will say aloha to Xandros; as you know, aloha 
means many things, in this case means goodbye.  After all the 
difficulties I had, trying to make it work in my newest machine, I went 
back and installed it in my old K-6, the machine I sort of learned Linux 
on. The machine had been running mandrake 9 very happily. This is the 
same machine that many months ago I installed Corel OS/2 (download) 
which worked like a dream except for inability to get sound working. I 
am surprised and amazed that starting with Corel OS/2 which worked 
almost perfectly, Xandros does not seem to work very well. It installed 
fairly well, found my network card, had difficulty with DHCP, could not 
find a DNS which I had to enter manually, in contrast to Corel. 
RealPlayer came up, froze, did not work, would not close unless I 
rebooted. Same thing for XM MS. I tried to install WordPerfect 8  for 
Linux, was amazed that you had not supplied the proper support files 
which would not have been much of an effort. I tried to install the 
Napster client from the Internet, downloaded the .deb file and was 
completely mystified by your install process.  I will not return the 
product, will not ask for a refund, because I believe in supporting the 
overall Linux effort and wish you well in your future versions. Good luck.