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Setting up Xandros. After telling Xandros to install, this is your first 'big' decision on the setup. Easy enough for you?
Continuing the Xandros setup. All of this basic setup runs automatically. Foul something up? You can always re-run the First Run Wizard.
Setting up Peripherals. Setting up your peripherals, such as a printer, is also simple even if, as in this case, it's a network printer on a Windows server on a Windows network.
Making Xandros Windows-like: Making Xandros look and feel like Windows requires a simple one step choice. On System Behavior choose Windows.
Xandros Windows. Ta-da, suddenly Xandros looks, and acts, a lot like Windows XP.
Installing Windows Applications. A little farther along, I've placed the main bar on the top, where I like it, and I'm getting ready to install Internet Explorer 6. Installing Windows applications with CrossOver is as easy as installing them in native XP.
Securing Xandros. Besides having Linux's built-in security, Xandros makes setting up firewalls easy. Don't know networking? Just go with the defaults, and you'll be fine.
Updating Xandros. Updating Xandros is also easy, and unlike Microsoft, they never try to 'sneak' an update in on you.
Permissions the right way. Unlike Vista, which seemingly wants your password and permission every time you want to wipe your nose, Xandros only asks you for your administrator password when you're making a significant change to your system.
Networking and file systems the Xandros way. Yes, that's right, you can drop Xandros in a Windows Active Directory network and it works just fine. Try that with other Linuxes, or Vista for that matter.
Accessing network resources. Notice all those file resource options? Windows servers, NFS servers, local drives, whatever, Xandros make getting to file systems easy no matter what they're running on.
The Full Xandros. And, here we are at my complete desktop. In the foreground, we've got Internet Explorer, OpenOffice with a document that's on an AD server, and Firefox with Acrobat showing a PDF. Xandros isn't just ready for work. It's working.
