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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I tried it on google day too
by nonamenobody on Fri 6th Feb 2004 22:02 UTC

I have to say there were many things that impressed me and many which didn't. The lack of an advance install frustrated me. Not least because mis-configured my monitor, I had to reboot it manually from GRUB and edit my XF86Config. The one thing that annoyed me most was the complete lack of regional configuration. I could only change my keyboard type using the tools provide by KDE. I also didn't like the fact the only howto I could find explaining how to change my keyboard type was entitled "How do I configure a foreign keyboard" (last time check my UK keyboard was in the UK and is 100% native).

I felt that as a Linux distro., LindowsOS left a lot to be desired. As an MS-Windows replacement however, it is promising.