Hi Everyone, I ran across an article on the net talking about an os called lindows. The article made it sound like the ideal os, it's stable and compatible with either windows and linux. Compared to windows, the price is a givaway at $60. I would like to know if anyone has it and how good it is, thanking you in advance for your responses, frank

Frank, Lindows is ok, the problem is the with driver and program compatability. It is fun to mess with just not guarntee on compat.

I think they have a demo of the OS, but it might be some other Linux OS company, might want to check around, and try it out before you buy it. "hey" is right, I couldn't get my cable modem to work with it, but that's because it uses a usb port =/ and all the Linux distributions i've tried don't support the whole "usb cable modem thing" without some serious coding, and I'm too lazy to learn to code just to get online, so here I am with Windows ME....*sigh*

hello short a modem being a problem all other hard ware should have no problems with drivers. winlucent modems are about the only problem with drivers because they being microsoft suck ups would not give chip set spets to linux so drivers could be writen. you should have no problems runing and useing it. you can d/l other linux distors free. or buy them dircheep at www.linuxcenteral.com have a nice day

Thank you Hey, Matt and Dave, the article really liked it (from PC magazine), though I had never heard of it. I might use it as another os, which gives flexibility. I suspected it might have some problems seeing how many problems M$ has with every os change it comes out with, but all your input does not sound as negative as I thought, thanks again guys, frank

When Lindows was first announced, they promised Windows runtime compatibility. They have given up on that idea. The new approach is to provide the same function as Window's apps with Linux programs. The CEO of Lindows explains it here. http://info.lindows.com/askmichael/question19.htm