<quote who="Bill Bennett"> > I've been given a copy of Lindows4.5 by someone who is (was) rather chary > of it---the Lindows, not the version. > > Has anyone had any experience with Lindows that they'd care to > communicate? Good/bad/indifferent will do.
Lindows will run your user session as root by default. This is a hideously bad thing to do, because it makes your entire system as vulnerable to attack as Win9x or Windows 2k/NT/XP (when running as Administrator, which seems to be very common). I fear that Linspire will make Linux look terrible. Because of this, I have a hard time recommending it to anyone, regardless of any additional eyecandy or features they provide. It's just not cricket. - Jeff (who works on Ubuntu, which may reflect some element of bias) -- EuroOSCON: October 17th-20th http://conferences.oreillynet.com/eurooscon/ "Man, is there some worldwide consipiracy to supply me with doctored dictionaries or something?" - Adrian van den Dries -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
