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 guess we'll never know, because all those people who are working on the Linux desktop never got a chance to work on the BeOS one. The passing of BeOS is what convinced me that to be sucessful, an alternative OS must be community-supported and open source. Though I prefer OSS software, I have no problem with proprietory programs. However, there are some advantages to the OSS development model, and those advantages are very important for an alternative OS. Consider how long it has taken Linux to get this far. More than a decade, at last count. There is no way a newe commercial company selling a new proprietory competitor to Windows would have lasted long enough to start gaining marketshare like Linux is doing.