Linked by Adam S on Wed 25th Sep 2002 02:21 UTC
The Linux community has been buzzing about LindowsOS since its original announcement over a year ago. With Michael Robertson, founder of mp3.com, at the helm, it was heralded as a Linux that could seamlessly run all of your Windows applications. As details became available, the skepticism of the community grew and with the LindowsOS general release only months away, no one is quite sure what to make of Lindows.com and their product, LindowsOS. We tested Lindows 2.0 and we today present the most in-depth review ever written for this much-talked OS, accompanied by a number of shots.
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That Keramik default button looks like crap. I don't know about you, but for me that much of a gap between parts on a physical item usually indicates shoddy workmanship. Either that or somebody mashed on the button one too many times and now it is stuck in the pressed-in position.
As for all of this "won't someone please think of the system files !?!" whining: what about my personal files? Screw the system files. I can get those off of the CD or from CNR. It is the files _I_ created that are important to me.
Maybe app devs shouldn't write crappy software that lets arbitrary binaries run or copy to arbitrary locations on my system (after all, everyone always gets their feathers in a bunch when MS does it). And maybe I should be smarter than to run a random binary some loser might send me (too much to hope for sadly, but makes for a good life lesson).
That said, I could see benefit to protecting the core system and firewall parts via password (no mention of "root user", that's an implementation detail).
On the recommendation to include the GIMP: Go ahead, if you want to scar your users for life (well, maybe not _life_
Random question:
Can you type something like c:foobar (or c:/foo/bar) in a file open dialog and have it work?