[wplug] Lindows on P2P

[Ghataora, Hardeep]

Blah .... Lindows

I totally agree with Mike I downloaded it and tried and was not
impressed at all. For some reason (I cant remember why) I thought there
would be seemless transparent integration for people who wanted to use
Windows applications, as I've mentioned previously, I downloaded some
Win32 apps and saved them to the desktop and found it a hassle to get
them to run in the emulator. There were some vmware issues too (Ran with
vmware 4.0 on a Windows XP host) that I'd never had with any other LINUX
I'd run, meaning that when booting I got thrown to the login: prompt. I
also found Click-N-Run everywhere a bit of a pain too, on the desktop,
on the panel, in every sub-menu of the 'Lindows' menu button under
'Program Filse' (and yes, I understand this is a commercial product in
many ways).

I don't usually whine, and I know there is an incredible amount of work
to get LINUX/Windows compatibility all in one OS, but, I'm not impressed
at all. The easiest set up where I've used LINUX to run a Windows
application is within Knoppix (3.2 and 3.3) where it's pretty much
worked flawlessly.

Just my rant (haven't *really* had a chance to complain about Lindows).

h


-----Original Message-----
From: techmike [mailto:mikeslists at access995.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 8:02 AM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] Lindows on P2P



I played with Lindows a bit, not really impressed.  Its very like Redhat
9 
on KDE.  A little too like it.  Looks like the lindows people didn't put

too much work into refining it with their own flavor.  And then selling 
what should be free.

Just my 2 and a half cents.  :)

-Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: "Vanco, Don" <don.vanco at agilysys.com>
To: wplug at wplug.org
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:55:26 -0500
Subject: [wplug] Lindows on P2P

> Lindows has put thier "LiveCD" release up on several P2P networks 
> (formerly $30).  While I personally don't think it lives up to its 
> Windows replacement
> hype, it _is_ my favorite distro to give to Windows users....
> http://info.lindows.com/lindowslive/p2p.html
> <http://info.lindows.com/lindowslive/p2p.html> 
>  
> Don
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