[KLUG Members] Lindows

[Rusty Yonkers]

Well I had a chance to run the Lindows sneak preview 2 last night. 
It was, shall we say, enlightening.  

The first thing I noticed is that it runs everything as root and more
importantly does not even give you the ability to do something
different.  I assume that if I really wanted to work at it I could
add some additional users but I do not think I could log in as
anything other than root in KDE.  

The menus are constantly pointing to the click-n-add web site wanting
you to subscribe to it.  There are some programs but not a large
number.  I did not try to add any additional Linux programs on the
system.  

I did get Microsoft Office 2000 to install.  I just inserted the cd
and it installed flawlessly.  I ran Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and IE
(that was really wierd!).  Access tanked on me though.  I was not
able to print from them though.  

I did get printing working on a network printer.  I did not have a
locally connected printer to try.  I may have been able to get
printing to work for Office if I had a locally connected printer but
am not sure.  

All in all, if I knew someone that wanted to get away from M$ Windows
and did not want to be a Linux geek type I would recommend a Mac for
them (of course I have a like for the Mac too though).  Things would
have not gone as well if it had not been for my knowledge of Linux in
the first place.  I had to go to the shell several times to undork
things when loading games and trying to run Access.  

The games that I tried to load did not, however they do not work on
Windows 2000 either so it is probably not a really fair test.

Interesting concept and kinda cute but I am not going to strike up
the band for it.


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Rusty Yonkers
CNE, MCP, A+, CCNA, Linux+, Server+ certified
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Department of Redundancy Department
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Devoted RedHat fan... looking for penguin domination

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