Linked by Tarmo Hyvärinen on Thu 5th Feb 2004 20:41 UTC
Linspire 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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RE: Painful bootup
by ealm on Thu 5th Feb 2004 22:38 UTC

Though the boot is slow I find LindowsOS pretty quick and responsive once up - especially considering it's kernel 2.4.

Release 5.0 will be a big step forward though, sporting technology like kernel 2.6.x, XFree86 4.4.x, Reiser4 and KDE 3.2. Also CNR will be re-written and there's some more goodies to be expected from what I've heard...