Linked by Barry Smith on Wed 26th Nov 2003 18:11 UTC
It seems to me that a lot of attention lately in the commercial Linux development area has concentrated on either large enterprise customers, or wooing the home user who can barely turn a computer on. Even distros claiming to offer the perfect solution for both ends of the spectrum don't quite seem to fit what I am looking for. 
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A couple of people mentioned the web cam. I included that webcam because I had recently read an interview with Mr. Robertson in LinuxWorld magazine, wherein he claimed that Lindows was the only Linux distro on the market where you could simply plug up a USB peripheral and have it be loaded onto the desktop autmatically.
So I grabbed the cheap little webcam that my daughter was using under Windows and plugged it up to find out. I acknowledge that I should have made that more clear.
In honesty, I have not yet tried that webcam under other Linux distros, although I intend to include it in the other reviews. I just figured it this way, "Hey, Mr. Robertson claims you can just plug up a USB device and have it added to the desktop automatically. Let's grab a cheap, generically common USB webcam and see what happens."
Perhaps I could have located something on the net to make it work, but Lindows does claim in marketing that it is ready for the home user out of the box. Many home users have cheap little USB webcams, don't they?
Barry