Star Review: A Slackware User Looks at LindowsOS
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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Rayiner
by -=StephenB=- on Fri 6th Feb 2004 03:57 UTC

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.

No argument there - although, I think that's due as much (if not more) to the current conditions in the OS software market than the relative merits of closed/open development models.