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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About the Wine stuff.
Ever tried running IE installed on another Windows machine with Windows? Doesn't work, same with Word. Their first preview was able to install and run MS Office 2000 (so I don't think they will drop support for that). Looking at the current state of IE and WMP in Wine, I do think they will be supported in the final version.
Also lots of popular file sharing apps such as Kazaa and WinMX work pretty good with Wine.
I really beleave the root-thing is a problem though. Lots of people these days download all sorts of junk and just click on whatsever they downloaded.