Star Lindows: A Real Linux Desktop Alternative to Windows
Linked by Robert Trembath on Sat 30th Aug 2003 11:41 UTC
Linspire 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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I/ve been using Lindows for almost a year now, and it has better hardware detection than any of the other 30 distros that I've tried. Even found some of my 56k modems....External Elsa Microlink........internal Conextant........internal LT Winmodem...internal PCTel.....(not all LTs or PcTel, but some).
Now for the $65,000 car thing vs the $15,000 car.
Say you got 10 houses(computers) with 10 driveways for 10 cars(Operating Systems). The first Win-car in first driveway
cost you $65,000. If you put a Win-car in each driveway you must pay $65,000 nine more times. If you have Lindows-cars you only have to pay the $15,000 once and you can have a Lindows-car in each driveway. SWEEEET.
If you want a radio (Office) in each of the Win-cars you have to pay about $350 times ten.
To put a radio in the Lindows-car (Open Office) you pay $0.
For 10 Lin-radios you pay 10 times $0 = $0
Or you can purchase super radio (Star Office) for the Lindows-car from Click and Buy (Click and Run) for $29.95 and put it on each of your Lindows-cars. $29.95 for all 10 of them.
Or if you want a Win-radio in the Lindows-car, you can buy Win4Lin and put that on all 10 Lindows-cars for the price of one installation ($69.99)........but you must only install one copy of Win-radio (Office) license issue, sorry.
Also there are many win applications that will run under Win4Lin and Wine (free=$0)
I have about 15 computers and have LindowOS on all but two or three.
Have I ever saved a bundle or what? Also, I have learned a lot about Linux in general, the Lindows forums are teriffic,and I have had a lot of fun with the OS.
It works very,very well.
JLT