Greetings, Has anyone had any experience with Lindows, yet? I'm considering buying one of the pre-loaded machines from Wal-Mart and wanted to know what people liked/disliked about the Lindows distribution.
Do you feel that dumping a Lindows box on my 76 year-old Dad as a replacement to his cruddy iMac (rev-A that crashes all the time, and whos modem won't stay synced above 33.6) would be a Good Idea (tm)? He ONLY uses it for Solitare, looking at digital photos, email, and web browsing (in that order). He snowbirds from Grand Rapids to Tucson so remote access to his machine from afar is important. Also the ability to have two *identical* machines and only carry his hard drive back and forth saves bunches of bucks, compared to shipping the iMac twice per year. I have already looked at the reviews at: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/business/columnists/tech_test_drive/3599174.h tm http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/07/02/1247234.shtml?tid=23 - Will *ANY* Debian software work on Lindows, or is it sufficiantly modified to require *special* packages in order to install correctly? - Can "Click-n-Run" be pointed at *any* Debian mirror site and avoid the $99 fee? - Has anyone actually tried any M$ software under Lindows? What was tried? Were there any gotchas? --- Jay "Those that sacrifice essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Ben Franklin (1759) +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Jay Nugent [EMAIL PROTECTED] (734)971-1076 (734)971-4529/Fax | | Nugent Telecommunications [www.nuge.com] (734)649-0850/Cell | | Internet Consulting/Linux SysAdmin/Engineering & Design/ISP Reseller | | ISP Monitoring [www.ispmonitor.net] ISP & Modem Performance Monitoring | | Web-Pegasus [www.webpegasus.com] Web Hosting/DNS Hosting/Shell Accts| | LinuxNIC, Inc. [www.linuxnic.net] Registrar of the .linux TLD | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 6:01pm up 16 days, 1:23, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
