Subject: Re: Coming soon - aka Lindows
From: Chris Hamilton (chris@digitalalaska.com)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 12:05:47 AKDT
I bought a subscription to the Lindows "Insider" program, which gives you
access to their OS. You are right about Wine not being ready for
primetime. I found one program that ran - Terminal Services client, and
that ran like it was on a 386 with 8MB of RAM, very slow (unusable).
I still get all their marketing stuff in my email, and they have really
backed off of the "run Windows programs" approach. Now they are touting
their "Click-n-run" system, which is basically apt with a need web
interface.
In all fairness, Lindows installed easier than any system I have ever
seen, even Windows. I don't think I had to answer a single question, it
autoconfigured everything, not sure if that is good or bad. But the end
result was that I had an Internet connection and a couple of good Linux
applications. Really not a bad deal for $99.
Chris.
-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Dieters <enderak@gci.net>
To: "'aklug@aklug.org'" <aklug@aklug.org>
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 11:04:54 -0800
Subject: Re: Coming soon
>
> 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
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