Derek Jennings wrote:
> Surprisingly enough you can find it at www.lindows.com
>
>
> Lindows has upset a lot of people in the linux world by
> 1/ Charging people for being a beta tester
> 2/ Not publishing the source code
> 3/ Making all users run as 'root' so defeating a large part of Linux security
>
> Lindows is just a KDE based Linux distro with Wine used to run certain Windows
> apps. (Just like codeweavers office), although they hype it up to sound
> something more.
>
> If you want an easy to install Linux which makes life easy for Windows fans
> then Everyone's Linux http://www.elxlinux.com/elx/index.php or Lycoris Linux
> http://www.lycoris.com/ are cheaper, are available, are downloadable :-)
\begin{bitchiness} I hope the people at ELX put more care into their
distro than their website. Lycoris _looks_ nice and professional, but
unless KOffice has got a lot more user-friendly since I last looked at
it, I imagine the learning curve for the average Word user would make
installing Mandrake look like falling off a log.\end{bitchiness}
More seriously, I'm rather suspicious of distros which say you can just
install everything automatically and not have to worry about how to
partition your disk etc. Probably works out of the box 90% of the time,
and leaves the other 10% with an unusable Linux partition, and maybe a
fried Windows partition as well. Maybe I'm suffering from brand
loyalty, but I doubt if installation of any operating system gets much
easier than a standard Mdk8.2 (I know it's easier than installing Win98,
from recent and bitter experience).
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Robin Turner
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