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Episode: 385
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Title: HPR0385: Why Xandros doesn't suck
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0385/hpr0385.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 19:31:58
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We will see you next week.
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Welcome to another episode of HBR, I'm your host Enigma and today I will be giving my
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first netbook review. Today the one is aptly titled Why Zanderous Doesn't Suck. As the title
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implies I'll be talking about the Zanderous OS which came on my ASUS Tripoli 900 series.
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So I've had this OS for barely Tripoli for about seven months now and I've been pretty
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happy with it and pretty happy actually with the Zanderous OS for the day-to-day operations
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that I use my Tripoli for. I have several laptops in the house and the netbooks have their
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niche for being, you know, just for easy web access, you know, mail, PDF, readers, some
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basic office documents, you know, nothing processor intensive or ram intensive. I have my larger
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laptops that can do that but the Tripoli is meant for long battery life. I use mine a
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lot on my plane flights I travel a lot so my laptop, my larger laptops don't have the
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battery life for it, you know, they only last maybe two hours but my Tripoli lasts, I believe
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the stock battery lasts about three hours, you know, two and a half, three hours which,
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you know, I do a lot of West Coast travel and I live on the East Coast so it's a good four
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or five hour plane flight and that's not including the, not including layovers in, you know, Houston
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or Atlanta that I inevitably get stuck in but anyway I digress. So as I said, primarily
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I use it for, you know, internet access, messaging, things like that. So I'm going to go through
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some of the apps that it has for the web. It has Firefox as a default browser for the
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messenger. It uses Pigeon. Both I use on my main, you know, Linux laptop I run a bunch
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to 804 or 810 I believe still I haven't upgraded yet. Other internet applications that are
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nice are the Skype application that I use a lot and it's got a built in, my at least my
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laptop has a built-in mic and webcam which works straight out of box with the OS and worked
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fairly well. The mic, I don't know if it's my, if it's the Tripoli's fault but I get a lot
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of ambient noise in backgrounds when I'm using the built-in recorder. However, with the Skype app
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I don't get nearly as much background noise and I don't know. I've only used it once and I recorded
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back in December I believe I recorded an HPR episode. If you listen to that I actually did a lot
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of editing for that and it still sounds pretty horrible. So hopefully the sound quality on this
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app since I'm on my desktop recording will be a lot better. So sorry about the poor sound
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quality on that one. And for a office document or office suite it has OpenOffice 2.0. It has the
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dock, the spreadsheets, the presentation. It doesn't come with the database software. It has
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PDF to reader. It has a mail app. It has a pretty much a very slim down file manager. It works for
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what you know you need it for. Not real fancy. None of the apps are really that fancy or cutting edge
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there. You know very skilled down versions of the normal applications because you don't have
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that much to that many resources to work with with the triplies. Also has a paint program. It has
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some learning software. It has a math program and a science program for kids and the games
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personally. My favorite game is on this one is Penguin Racer. I'm a big fan.
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And of course it has Frozen Bubble which I hate that game to no end but I digress again. I fail
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at the Frozen Bubble and you guys can laugh at me but I do fail. It has a stupid potato guide
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game and Sudoku and Solter. Oh and a ripoff of Tetris called Altress Tetris. And as I said it has a
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sound recorder where you can that it just records into a wave file and that's how I recorded that
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game review HPR. And the printers work fairly well. The printers drivers that uses cups I believe.
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I really haven't tried that and I think that's about it that I wanted to talk about. I'm just
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looking here. I've actually got my ASUS in front of me and don't think there was anything else but
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the main reason that I use this OS is you don't have to screw around with it a lot. It works straight
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out of the box. All the apps work. The wireless works straight out of the box which I don't know if
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you guys have the trouble that I have with wireless and Linux. Most of the time when I install
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an IOS on a new laptop I always have issues with the wireless drivers.
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It never seems to fail me because I always get the wrong chipset and you know it just fails me.
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So a couple of announcements I'd like to thank personally thank Monster B and Klaatu for doing
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you know a stellar job at getting me at HPR episodes. Monster B has a new series called
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TIT radio. It's a like it's if you've seen or if you've heard Linux Cranks it's somewhat similar to
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that. It's like a roundtable discussion. I believe they have it live on DDP hack radio so go check
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that out. I think it's every other week if I correct me if I'm wrong but I think it's every other
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week and Linux Cranks on the off weeks. So check those two shows out and I think that's about it
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for today. If you have any questions or hate mail or whatever email me admin at HPR or I'm sorry
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admin at HackerPublicRadio.org feedback at HackerPublicRadio.org and we now have a Twitter
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and a Facebook group and I know I'm going to get some hate mail for that so yes I'm a media
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whore so you can just say it now and that's about it for today. Again email me you know we always
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need posts so if you want to do a show or have questions just email me and we or catch me in IRC
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I'm usually in free note and you can always catch me on bin rev you know PME and the bin
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rev forums and that's about it. I should have another the next two reviews I believe are going to
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be backtrack three or four I haven't decided yet on the triple E and triple E Ubuntu on my
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triple E as well I've got to get a SD card big enough to install them with because obviously a
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two gig isn't big enough had some issues with that so stay tuned for that and hopefully I'll be
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recording some more shows I know I haven't recorded in a while but thanks to the guys that you
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know I've kept HBR such a success we're up to 382 what I want to say episodes this should be 383
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or 384 I lost track and for you guys that do pay attention to the the ID3 tags I need to go back
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and correct some of those I was working nights there for a while and and was slipping on the
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ID3 tag so sorry about that guys and oh I've got a new blog if you want to check check it out it's
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insecuretech.com go over there I try to post like once a week at least hopefully I can post some
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more good content over there and have a good day and we'll see you tomorrow on Hacker Public Radio.
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Thank you for listening to Hacker Public Radio. HBR is sponsored by Carol.net so head on over to
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