Lindows

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Anyone here know anything about this? It looks interesting but dont want to spend $90.00 if it is not usable

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[manly]

Save your money.

There are at least a dozen other operating systems I'd buy before LindowsOS. And guess what? Most of the *nix ones are freely downloadable.

 

[Bleep]

There are at least a dozen other operating systems

I have not found any that are very good, I am running linux and I want something that will work for me not me work for it, have you seen or tried lindows or are you just guessing?
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[TheOmegaCode]

I saw an early beta of Lindows and wasn't all that impressed. I only saw it for a minute so my opinion is not a solid one...

 

[johnlog]

Check out the Lindows web site at:

http://www.lindows.com/lindows_products_lindowsos.php

It is the Lindows company web site so what you read about how good it is take it with a grain of salt as it is not as good as they claim it to be. There are Lindows reviews on the internet that are not very complimentary.

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: Bleep

There are at least a dozen other operating systems

I have not found any that are very good, I am running linux and I want something that will work for me not me work for it, have you seen or tried lindows or are you just guessing?
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I haven't personally tried LindowsOS but the reviews I read were awful. It's not cheap either, as the yet unfinished OS is $99. And to get applications taylored for LindowsOS, you have to subscribe to some service that's like another $99 annually.

If you need to reinstall your OS, then apparently you get to download all those applications again from scratch (as I understand it). Windows application compatibility, which was originally highly touted by the company, is actually not improved from any other Linux distro.

I get all this and more from my $65 SuSE Linux Pro, which I can actually install 99.5% of for free over the Internet (a few commercial applications are exclusively on the retail CDs). If I wanted to pay a bit less, SuSE Personal, Mandrake Standard and Red Hat are all much better options than Lindows.

Believe me when I say it, from what I understand (w/o having hands-on experience), there are at least a dozen other operating systems I'd buy before handing over good money to LindowsOS. Unless they have some magical secret that they haven't yet unleashed upon the world, you really are paying extra for nothing significant. Just my two cents.

 

[aswedc]

try Lycoris or wait for Xandros or RedHat 8. Lindows sucks.

 

[Bleep]

Thanks guys!
I read some reviews but none were up to date. I see that Wall Mart was selling some systems with Lindows on them but have not seen one.
The reason that I am asking is that I build and donate quite a few machines to a Native American tribal school system and am looking for a decent OS that most anyone can use. I had a deal with MS for some OS but that has been terminated and dont know which way to turn, I sure cannot afford to buy a bunch of liciences to give away and I want to stay legal. It is beginning to look like the kids are out of luck once again.
UPDATE= I just went over and looked at suse and I do not know why I have not looked at this before This may be what I need.
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