Subject: Re: Coming soon
From: civileme (civileme@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 12:04:42 AKDT
On Friday 02 August 2002 11:04 am, Justin Dieters wrote:
> Unfortunately, I think Lindows is going to dissapoint a lot of people
> who buy it, either retail or preloaded, and expect to be able to fire up
> any program/game/etc just like they do in windows (and with no
> problems).. wine is a good program, but it is not 'ready for prime-time'
> quite yet and bringing it into such a big market as Walmart this early
> is just going to give a bad first impression to people...
>
> Justin
>
> Mike Barsalou wrote:
> >I got the most inexpensive one that I could. It had Lindows on it...which
> >is unfortunate, because It didn't work very well from my perspective. I
> > put RedHat with KDE....just cause I have Gnome at work.
>
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Now that I am no longer a Mandrakesoft Employee, I can speak my mind about
Lindows.
I think, genuinely, it is the worst of all worlds--It is proprietary, and
tries to keep the door open to all sorts of proprieatry apps. It logs you in
as root by default, and doesn't even tell you about regular users, So it
doesn't work that well running windows apps, it doesn't work that well (as
root) running a lot of linux apps; its hardware support is seriously
impaired, and its security is nonexistent. Lindows could be just as big a
virus transport as Windows except fortunately they haven't figured out how to
give apps DIRECT access to the kernel yet, only the implied access of running
as root.
Civileme
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