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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Interesting Responses
by RJay75 on Fri 6th Feb 2004 17:11 UTC

It's pretty interesting to see the response everyone has to this distro.

For me this distro has been pretty good and one of the most comfortable ones I've tried. I've been trying several for a while now and this one actually seem to just work. I installed it in VMWare and it detected, and setup all the hardware without intervention. I was able to use the GUI and CLI to make changes to things. I try CnR to install some software and it worked pretty well for the limited app I could install without registering. For me this was a plus to be able to go to a control panel that's actually logically laid out and I could really configure things from one place without having to go and alter config files as well. The Program menus are laid out nicely without all the duplication and mutltiple categories that I normally see in other distros. I was also still able to download and install apps by compiling them with no problem either. So I had the best of both. A working GUI and fine tune controling through the CLI.

The only annoyance I had was getting it to Log out of the GUI to just the CLI. There should be an option to do so but after a little searching of the Lindow forums I was able to figure out to to boot to the CLI and load the GUI when needed then log back out of it.

Now I just have to install it on actual hardware and hope it still works as well.