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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I managed to get lindows on google day as well, im somewhat impressed. first thing was that installed drivers for all my hardware including all my nvidia hardware ( network card, fx5600, ect.) dint know at first if it installed drivers for the fx5600 or not couse it dint show that nvidia splashscreen ,but a quick check with glxgears show its working (3000 fps). I was bored and just got paid so i decided to try out click-n-run after spending the 50$ ( they do offer a 5$ a month plan but it requires a 1 year commitment or they take it all out at once when you cancel) installing programms with CNR was for the most part nice as it installs icons and menu items, only problems I ran acros was it always leaves an icon on the desktop, do i realy want an icon for midnight commander on my desktop, also there is a few software in CNR that are labled as untested such as xawtv, and its got a dependacy problem with tv-fonts and installing one will automagicly uninstall the other without asking. Over all lindows is a nice os, I just wish they would change that stupid name