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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just noted interesting experiences from users..
- in regards to fx5600: one user said he got 3000 fps in lindows while another said ~1600 fps (but ~3000 in suse) .. mobo chipset problems? for windows at least, i know that agp port driver can be buggy for some chipsets and sometimes, it's left out entirely (because it's not supported out of the box by os) so it defaults to pci mode.
.. though i don't *think* that would make a difference for something like glxgears.
- partition mounting: article mentions that windows is automatically mounted, but his linux (i assume slack) partitions aren't; while user comment above mentions that his windows partitions weren't, while some of his linux's were .. hmm .. strange..
i got the free 4.5 iso too, which is definitely cool.. maybe it was released too soon or maybe more testing needs to be done on non-standard, or non-expected configurations as well