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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Nobody has mentioned so far what seems to me the most serious issue with Lindows.
Their latest update is approximately a 650 MB download.
And yet when you install Lindows it doesn't feel at all like a 650 MB distro, it has VERY few applications.
There are at least a couple of hundreds MB unaccounted for.
What happened?
I have an opinion and I believe it is a good bet: the remainder is 'broken code', apps which need a bit added by CnR to work.
No wonder that apt doesn't work properly! On the contrary, it goes MAD!!!
I find this issue unforgivable, because they want you to believe that Lindows is Debian compatible!
Besides 'apt-cdrom add' has never worked. Why? I suppose because then it would be too easy to make CnR redundant.
The Lindows developers have the potential to make a good, easy to use Debian distro.
But they are kept too busy with CnR.
What about releasing, once or twice a year, a FULL sized, nice, easy to use Debian based OS?
Good also for users on dialup, IMO.