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Lindows insider, or Michael Robertsons dime peice, Kreek My opinion as stated before is that Lindows is crap, cut down Debian and a $99.00 price tag for free software, Lindows will die, it wont make it. Not because the distro sucks but the CEO Michael Robertson keeps dragging his name thru the mud, He killed MP3.com, he will kill Lindows. The inevitable is coming, because of his reputation and the negative press and lies he has brought down upon his distro, nobody will ever take him seriously. In fact my Linux User Group will not allow Lindows to be installed nor will we assist. At this last installfest, we had 11 newbies who wanted Lindows, we got them on assorted others, SuSE, Mandrake, Red Hat and even 1 FreeBSD install. And they are excited with the others. We do not consider Lindows a distro and therefore it is banned, for the existing Lindows users, mainly 1 guy, we banned all access to C-N-R. We arent doing it to be mean, we just dont consider Lindows as a good choice for newbies, due to the fact of the Microsoft Windows frame of mind we fill it represents. If we have a person that wants Lindows, we try to convince them to try something else, which 99.9% of them do, or we will allow you to access the Lindows stores and order the CD's but we dont want the digital edition to tie up bandwidth for others that are trying real distros, as for the overview, good layout, too info limited, and the grammer of a third grader. If I was a newbie who was considering Lindows but just on the edge of buying the overview would not convince me.