Microsoft Covenant to Customers
Published: July 5, 2007 | Updated: July 5, 2007
"Microsoft,
on behalf of itself and its Subsidiaries, hereby covenants not to sue a
Customer of Xandros for infringement under Microsoft’s Covered Patents
on account of such Customer’s use of specific copies of Covered
Products as distributed by Xandros during the Term. For the avoidance
of doubt, bug fixes and minor updates to a specific copy is considered
the same copy and remains covered by the above covenant provided such
bug fixes and minor updates do not add substantial new functionality;
an upgrade (or a new version) of a specific copy is treated as two
different copies." ... [excerpt continues]
http://www.microsoft.com/interop/collab/xandros/customer_covenant.mspx
Notes: It is unclear to me if this applies to the users of the ASUS EeePC and its forked distribution of Xandros.
Add Icons to the Easy Mode graphical interface
There
are ways to make super "Easy Mode" interface work to your advantage.
The key is to reverse engineer how the ASUS guys set up the
environment. They compiled a few custom binary executable files. We can
work around that. While looking around, you will find icons for Mario
Brothers, and a number of applications that aren't installed. There are
references to programs that aren't in the repositories. Even if you are
a Linux power user you may find this set of solutions preferable to
installing another distrubtion with limited hardware support.