Santa Fe Linux- Desktop Linux Operating System

by New Mexico

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00065E5RI
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 27, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,231 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

This is a Linux distribution with unique design goals. The Desktop environment was designed to be familiar. People using Sante Fe won't have to guess what buttons do what, or what the icons represent. No longer is Linux for the experts. Everyone can enjoy the amazing benefits of Open Source Software. Imagine if current operating system came with the most popular graphics and office productivity software already preinstalled at no extra charge. Imagine if every copy of your current operating system had a 3D graphics and animation program. Santa Fe can offer all that and more. Santa Fe comes with over 60 preinstalled programs for graphics and animation design, desktop publishing, games, and an office suite that is compatible with Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook. These are fully functional programs not demos. And we'll even include a demo software from our friends at CodeWeavers; Crossover Office which allows you to run the most popular Microsoft programs.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Suggest Other Distributions, October 25, 2004

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Ewan Grantham - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Santa Fe Linux- Desktop Linux Operating System (CD-ROM)

The main "reason" that you are supposed to want Santa Fe Linux over other distributions is that it is supposed to "just work". On three different machines, I was unable to get the product to even install. On the fourth I could get it to install, but it didn't work with my printer or my wireless network card.

I would personally recommend that someone looking to buy a Linux distribution for the better support (rather than just downloading one) examine Mandrake 10 which has much wider community support and more documentation available.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly Feature Packed But Unmaintained Since 2004, February 25, 2007

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Sparse Contributor "Just Likes Linux" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Santa Fe Linux- Desktop Linux Operating System (CD-ROM)

I will commend this distribution of Linux because of the amazing array of extremely useful applications it contains: Blender, Open Office, sodipodi, Gimp, Video Editor,
Scribus and Ximian Evolution among others.

But sadly, no one is keeping it up-to-date and the package updater is offline as well.
As a free trial live CD it is one of the most excellent Linuxes I've ever used. Sure wish the good doctor would come back and rescue this great little linux...

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Live CD looks pretty good, August 19, 2005

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DSC (Blacksburg, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Santa Fe Linux- Desktop Linux Operating System (CD-ROM)

I downloaded the live CD and ran it on three different machines, all with good results. The defaults in Santa Fe Linux makes for an attractive desktop and most of the applications appear to be quite good and useful. However, unlike SimplyMEPIS the live CD is just that and it does not have an installation routine -- you have to purchase the full version. I was sufficiently impressed by what I saw that I am entertaining spending the money. That event is contingent upon the answers to a couple of questions that I have posed to Santa Fe Software about SMP for my dual-Athlon rig. Overall, this distribution looks promising to me, a Linux user for better than ten years.