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:OSNews: Review: A Slackware User Looks at LindowsOS
OSNews: Review: A Slackware User Looks at LindowsOS
Feb 7, 2004, 01 :00 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (6311 reads)

(Other stories by Tarmo Hyvärinen)

"Lindows.com offered LindowsOS Developer Edition free for one day, GoogleDay (Whatever that is, I don't know, google's birthday perhaps?) so I decided to test it. My favorite distribution this far has been (and still is) Slackware Linux, which has always, well, just worked. I've been using Linux for some years now, I use Solaris at work (I work as software designer). Trying out Lindows after Slackware was totally different world, and here's some of my thoughts after trying out Lindows...

"The installer is easy, as it asked only hostname and root password. Nothing special about it. The only annoyance is that the installer does not let you repartition your hard drive. It's either wipe everything or wipe selected partition. The installer also doesn't handle free unpartitioned space, which I found a little strange.

"After installing, a nice lilo menu is shown. It's funny that the Lindows installer added Windows XP into my lilo menu, but not my another Linux installation (Slackware)..."

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Related Stories:
OSNews: A LindowsOS Review(Feb 03, 2004)
OSNews: LindowsOS Developer Edition Review(Feb 02, 2004)
OSNews: LindowsOS 4.0 Examined(Nov 06, 2003)


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