Hi
Anyone tried lindows?
it looks good, would be great for stumbling/*stumbing*
Just a thought, I'm very bored.
Cheers,
Originally posted by The Others
Hi
Anyone tried lindows?
it looks good, would be great for stumbling/*stumbing*
Just a thought, I'm very bored.
Cheers,
Originally posted by Dr3D1zzl3
heard they still didnt beat them yet just had a minor victory.
He cited evidence - including Microsoft's own dictionary of computing - to support the view that a window manager was already a generic term for a distinct class of software by the time Microsoft first announced Windows in late 1983.
Originally posted by focusdchaos
I just installed Lindows last night.
It is based on Xandros (which is inturn based on Debian) I didn't get a chance to play with it much, (my son required attentions).
I didn't try running in Win32 apps (although the setup.exe on the lindows cd ran).
Originally posted by focusdchaos
As I said, I didn't get to play with it much.
Here are my opinions so far:
Setup:
My god, a baboon could install Lindows. I setup on an unused box, with an empty drive. Booted from CD, and after the kernal loaded it asked me to click OK that I wanted to erase everything on the drive and continue. After clicking OK, I am asked to enter a computername, and a "Security Passord" (root password) if I would like to do so. At that point there is a warning that Lindows.com can NOT recover your lost security password.
After clicking Next, Lindows installs. After rebooting, you come to either a password prompt or directly to the desktop.
UI:
Looks like Windows mixed with a bit of KDE. It apprears that the UI is just a them, but it does a nice job at replicating Windows. Click on the (whatever its called) button (where the Start button it) and up pops a menu that looks like a Windows Start menu, programs, settings, my documents etc.
They did a good job of making everything familar to windows users.
You can get a Shell. The file browser works like Windows Explorer. There is a c:\ folder, where windows user's would feel comfortable (the Program Files folder is in there among other things).
I am a *nix n00b, so I can't really comment on the Nix side of things. I couldn't run ipchains, but ifconfig worked. I couldn't get my NIC to work, although Lindows detected it, and I could ping my IP put nothing else.
I'll try to play around with it more tonight, and give yall more info.
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