[wplug] HP to offer Linux desktops....
Vanco, Donald
VANCOD at PIOS.com
Thu Jul 24 09:08:03 EDT 2003
Teodorski, Chris wrote:
> Two things:
>
> First, Knoppix rocks. I love my Knoppix CD; it has saved my
> ass on more than one occasion.
Yes - it's awesome. I've only had one issue with a past release
that was NFS mount hostile and therefore could not do what I needed - but
it's simply awesome if you need the ability to test a device with zero
intervention from the native OS.
> Second, did Lindows ever do anything about the user always
> running as root? I know they caught some flak about that and
> I was wondering if they ever changed it.
Dunno for sure - I never actually checked, but I think that was
altered in the 4.0 release. One would like to believe that this would be a
major concern for a distro aimed at total neophytes.
Still, I have to say that Lindows has been the best distro I've
tried to date at:
- detecting and configuring my laptop modem with zero additional
intervention from me
- detecting and configuring my laptop video for full 3D support with
zero additional intervention from me
- setting up WINE/WINEX on my laptop blah blah blah.....
I've not had the time to try Severn yet, but have a spare drive
waiting.... if history proves anything I'll probably get to it the day
before the second beta is released.
Don
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