Linked by Tarmo Hyvärinen on Thu 5th Feb 2004 20:41 UTC
Lindows.com offered LindowsOS Developer Edition free for one day, GoogleDay (Whatever that is, I don't know, google's birthday perhaps?) so I decided to test it. My favorite distribution this far has been (and still is) Slackware Linux, which has always, well, just worked. I've been using Linux for some years now, I use Solaris at work (I work as software designer). Trying out Lindows after Slackware was totally different world, and here's some of my toughts after trying out Lindows.
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Bootup is slow, very slow. Never seen as slow boot up with any OS. Taking a closer look to see what happens in bootup, I was kind of shocked when I notified that Lindows tries to modprobe every module out there in bootup instead of saving the configuration and modprobing only stuff that is needed. Someone could call this "hardware detection", I call this a quick and dirty hack.
Man that sounds terrible. Couldn't that potentially hard lock your system by just trying to load every single module? And wouldn't it load a bunch of wasted modules that will never be used? As opposed to allowing the kernel load them when they are first needed, if ever.