Imperfections
a USB Driver that worked perfectly on Red Hat 8.0 (2.4.18 kernel) and on Xandros' 2.4.19-x1 kernel, failed to load because of kernel version differences. This problem can be solved with some work, but the distro appears to be targeted at users who won't be compiling kernel-level drivers.
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Vendor Info
Xandros Desktop, $99 per user. Xandros, (613) 842-3494. www.xandros.com
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Additionally, from Evolution I could open attachments in OpenOffice and Microsoft Office, but the control center wouldn't let me associate "msword" files with StarOffice.
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