[ Thanks to Timothy R. Butler for this
link. ]
“Lindows is a rather polarizing distribution in many ways. For
the most part, people either love it or hate it, both for the
company’s attitude and the distribution itself. We’ll consider that
in a bit, but first comes the question of how it stacks up to other
distributions technically.“The first potential issue in any distribution, although one
I’ve only encountered a handful of times, is whether the setup
program will boot. Unfortunately, it would seem that LindowsOS now
joins its close relative Xandros Desktop in having a problem at the
boot up stage. Like Xandros Desktop, LindowsOS chokes on our new
test box after getting to the ‘detecting hardware’ portion of the
boot process (before actually launching into the setup tool).
During our testing we did try the various alternate options
(including using the frame buffer mode) and the only option that
worked was the recovery mode that dumps one at a prompt without
anyway to get into setup.“This is a rather curious issue as we have tested many other
distributions on this system, including SuSE Linux, Mandrake Linux,
Red Hat Linux, Lycoris Desktop/LX, and Ark Linux without any major
hardware issues (i.e. all of them provided a working setup and
working system)…”