Linked by Robert Trembath on Sat 30th Aug 2003 11:41 UTC
As a system administrator, I have used Windows on the desktop since 2.0 and used to run Windows XP at home for my family. I use Linux and Windows servers at work and prefer (Red Hat) Linux for its security, stability and usefulness in a company with a diminishing IT budget. More than a year ago I started experimenting with Linux as a desktop solution and after installing and using more than 7 different distros along with many various versions of those distros, I found a distro that is doing everything its suppose to do, right out of the box. I'm talking about the pleasantly suprising Lindows 4.0.
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When you install LindowsOS, it sets up an account that we call the "Administrator" account. This is the root account, but we don't call it that simply because 99% of this planet doesn't know what a "root" is. Once you've installed LindowsOS as the Administrator, you can then add "users." Each time the computer reboots, you are presented with a friendly menu listing the Administrator account and each user. You simply click on the one you wish to login as and enter the appropriate password.
Parts of LindowsOS are OSS, but parts are not (Java, Flash, Bitstreamfonts, QuickTime libraries, etc.). We provide source for the OSS parts, but obviously not for the propriatary pieces. 1) We don't have the source, 2) We don't have a license to distribute the source.
Kevin