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Has anyone used Lindows?
Name: Cliff Date: April 9, 2003 at 22:54:32 Pacific OS: NA CPU/Ram: NA
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Lindows ... good? bad? ugly? Has anyone used it, and if so, what is it like?
Name: 3Dave Date: April 10, 2003 at 02:27:15 Pacific
Reply:
Yes and I didn't like it. You'd be better off with something like Mandrake or RedHat.
Search these forums for "lindows" and you should find some previous threads on it.
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Response Number 2
Name: USAma Hashimi Date: April 10, 2003 at 13:12:36 Pacific
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Yup Lindows is just waste of time. You should stick to "pure linux".
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Response Number 3
Name: Cliff Date: April 10, 2003 at 15:17:10 Pacific
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I have the latest builds of both Mandrake and RedHat. I also have Peanut Linux, Solaris 8, BeOS Pro 5.0.3, Ensemble Geos, New Deal Office 2000 Geos, QNX and various versions of Windoze. I just saw Lindows as something that looked interesting to play with and wanted people's opinions on how it ran; not as something to use as an everyday OS. I prefer BeOS as my everday OS. :) So, is it easy to use? Is it more Windows-like? More Linux-like? Anything you care to add is fine.
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Response Number 4
Name: 3Dave Date: April 11, 2003 at 02:20:52 Pacific
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As far as I remember, you have to login as root....it didn't give me many options during install (which may be a good thing for some!=o) and it relied too heavily on wine. Although I play around with wine at home to play games etc I try to steer clear of here at work due to unstability.
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Response Number 5
Name: Ronald Date: April 13, 2003 at 17:49:27 Pacific
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Yea you have to run as root and click and run is APT in disguise the repository is torn up. I would stay away from it if I where You.
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