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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Well, thanks for feedback (or, lack of it, guess not much complaining) for my _first_ review, ever
But also problem comes that if Lindows is based on KDE 3.0 (as I think, since dropshadows are missing) I would get only Quanta 3.0 (which is sooo much behind Quanta 3.2). I use quanta 7,5h/day for my _work_ so that is really my personal "Killer" application.
Here's some answers to some random questions:
>i was wondering what kernel lindows uses?
2.4.23 is default in 4.5
>Couldn't that potentially hard lock your system by just trying to load every single module?
No, actually. Insmodding something could. Soundcards tho might get confused by this.
>Since Lindows is Debian-based, wouldn't it be possible to get e.g. Quanta via apt?
Yes, it would be possible. Did I forgot to mention that? Crap
>Hardware detection by mod probing every module? If anything, that sounds like a kludgy attempt to do hardware detection the way BeOS does it.
Well, Knoppix for example has "clean" way to do hardware detection. So it's possible with Linux too