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Anyone else remember Corel Linux?

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[–] jw13@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are you sure it wasn’t Xandros OS?

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No, just Xandros, the e was a typo on my part, and the OS wasn't capitalized but stylized a different color than the rest of the name

It's long dead by now