Lindows Reviewed

Well, the wait is finally over. Lindows, the system that promises to bring Windows software to Linux, has finally been released in sneak-preview form. You can catch a first hand review of the system on NewsForge.

Comments

ah

[r00tarded]

so this is what m$ ment when they said there was going to be a new commitment to security...

Lindows

[slubberdegullion]

The Windows operating system is proprietary. If this 'Lindows' is able to run Windows programs, it has illegally reverse-engineered proprietary Windows code.

LindowsOS is a joke

[cscx]

For those of you that didn't read the article, let me boil it down for you: Not a single Windows app (except for RealPlayer 8) worked successfully for the reviewer. Oh and here's the funny part: it insists that you run as root. Ha! What a joke. It won't let you dual-boot with linux.

Here's a quote:

Linux users will find this preview fun to play with, but LindowsOS appears to be hampered without a Windows partition, which defeats the implied purpose of Lindows: to be able to freely run all Windows apps on Linux with no need for Windows. To reach Linux people, this needs to be a true Linux -- easy to install but configurable; transparent to the user so that if he chooses to make changes he can; and secure -- unless Robertson is only seeking previous Windows users who are not interested in configurability and security. And if that is the case, I wonder what benefit Robertson thinks there is for these people to switch to LindowsOS?

So.... let me get this straight... it needs a copy of Windows to run, but still costs $99. And it makes Windows 95 look stable. It is inherently _less_ secure than Win95 was. Even though you still ran as psuedo-root under Win95, you could run AntiVirus software. LindowsOS doesn't have any AV that works.

My favorite quote:

This is a beta and Robertson cautions that it is not expected to work properly

LOL! Beta (as opposed to alpha) is at least supposed to work somewhat properly; it's there to look for bugs. This seems more like "here is LindowsOS, it doesn't work, but we want you to spread some FUD and trick people into thinking it does.

And I don't think that the GNU/Hippies would be too happy about the $99 price tag that includes pretty much all their tools... and that's about it.

Re:Maybe improve DVD playback?

[flacco]

and (BONUS) it doesn't force you to sit through the stupid FBI/Interpol warnings and Coca-Cola commercials.

You know, it's tidbits like this that make me thank the stars every day that I've escaped from the sheep farm.

Toys

[fire-eyes]

I find it annoying when people want to do things like this on linux... Fer chrissake its supposed to be a serving environment not a silly play environment like certain other OS's.