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 Hashem
by Andrew D on Fri 6th Feb 2004 03:58 UTC

" The passing of BeOS is what convinced me that to be sucessful, an alternative OS must be community-supported and open source."

That says it all I think. I'd have loved BeOS to have taken off but the closed program meant that they could never grow enough or bring enough people in to keep the enthusiasm up to survive.

I only used BeOS a few times but enjoyed the experience and agree that in many ways BeOS in 2000 was closer to desktop ready than Linux is now. But Linux is - after a dry spell of a year or so imo - seemingly taking off in big ways. Possibly pushed by the reaction to SCO?