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Surprisingly Feature Packed But Unmaintained Since 2004
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...
Suggest Other Distributions
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.
Live CD looks pretty good
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.
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