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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The review is nice but looks more like a piece of PR than a real journalistic work. Most commercial distribution install easily on a vanilla hardware. The acid test today is configuration of a wifi card or some usb gadget. Is Lindows better than Mandrake / Suse or RedHat on this field, I doubt it and that is important fo a casual Windows user.
If you want a Debian based distribution with very easy and quick installation and the latest KDE try knoppix
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.htm
More or less, what you get with Lindows but with more useful software and a price of 0$
Lindows has been extensively using Gnu/Linux, Debian and KDE. It is their definite right, KDE code is GPL. But I think it is good practice for a commercial company relying so much on GPL products to give back to the community. Suse and Mankrake sponsor key developers in the KDE project. Lindows has done absolutely nothing exept paying a nominal fee to be part of the small KDE PR body KDELeague. When you buy a Mandrake or a Suse box, part of your money pays the development of your computer. When you buy Lindows overpriced distribution, your money ends in Mr. Robertson greedy hands.
We should educate the consumers not to fall for marketing gimmicks.