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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>the likes of libranet and lindows have nothing to offer
>except a bad reputation for linux.
Lindows has made some choices that I think are bad for their business and for the community. But if they do succeed at bringing in more non-technical users to the world of Linux, I would consider that something considerably more than "nothing to offer."
I'm also puzzled by your mention of Libranet. After install, Libranet leaves a pretty clean, mostly straight-up Debian install based on Woody with backports. You can easily change your sources list and switch the whole thing over to Unstable if you want, or otherwise tweak with apt-get and other apt tools. There's some gloss, but underneath it's still Debian. Not just Debian-based, or inspired by Debian, or powered by Debian technologies or what-have-you. Libranet != Lindows, but Libranet pretty much does = Debian.
(Why is partly why, although I actually use Libranet on one of my desktops and love it, it isn't a "newbie-proof" distro by any means. Libranet and Lindows are quite different, and have very different targets.)
(And while I'm in parentheticals here, can somebody explain to me the inordinate amount of Libranet coverage on Osnews.com? Might want to rename the site BeosandLibranet.com.)