| And in this corner, it's 'everyone's Linux'... [NewsForge] |
Jan. 16, 2002
NewsForge editor Robin "Roblimo" Miller experimented with a pre-release version of Elx Linux at a recent Linux Users Group meeting in Florida (testing it out on Linux beginners), and subsequently published a brief but interesting article on the results (and other observations) at NewsForge. In general, Miller felt that "ELX was achingly close to full usability, but not quite 'there' yet." Miller writes . . .
"ELX (everyone's Linux) is almost ready for user-level desktops. The basic package installed easily on the two computers I used to test it. My first install was done at a meeting of the Suncoast LUG in Brandon, Florida. Other members also tried ELX and gave it high marks. We tested Pre-I, a far-from-finished release, and now we're eagerly awaiting ELX Pre-I release candidate-II, which probably won't have most of the bugs we saw in Pre I."
"ELX is a simplified, KDE-based distribution that is very similar to Redmond Linux. Both of them have put a lot of effort into making their setup routines and default desktops as Windows-user-friendly as possible, while still including more sophisticated GUI and command line admin tools. And both are succeeding. If anything, ELX is even closer to Windows, as far as GUI- level administration, than Redmond Linux . . ."
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