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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I lived with the Lindows installation for a day. Then I put Mandrake 10B on teh same host.
My conclusion: Mandrake is far better for support, speed, configurability and look&feel. And, did I mentioned far cheaper?
The Lindows experiemnt was interesting, but, God, what a dog! Once up and running it was OK, but the boot process was interminable. Also, It wouldn't come up in runlevel5, even though I had changed it in /etc/inittab. I'd let a nontechnical relative use it, but for anyone with a modicum of perspective it was awkwardly painful.