OSNews: Review of LindowsOS 3.0

“I heard so much about this product (some good, some bad), but I
had never really tried it before Lindows.com sent us in the latest
version of their OS, LindowsOS version 3.0. I took it a spin for
two weeks now, and here is what I think about it (and for the
eye-candy seekers, screenshots included).

“I received the LindowsOS 3.0 via download, and the ISO file was
a 397 MB file. I had an empty 8 GB partition on my dual Celeron
2×533 Mhz machine waiting for it, but booting its CD and not seeing
anywhere the option to disallow it to overwrite my MBR and my boot
manager, it was a no-go for me to install it there (that machine
has 9 OSes in it and I don’t feel like indanger its bootmanager
where WinXP relies on (XP can become a pain if you overwrite 7 hex
numbers that it needs in my MBR). The only other machine available
I have here is my AthlonXP 1600+ with 768 MB of RAM. It already had
3 OSes there, but I don’t use that machine often and putting back
its original bootmanager wouldn’t be that hard, so I decided to
wipe out my SuSE 8.1 PRO installation in order to make some room
and install LindowsOS for this review. I believe that the option to
“Do not install Bootmanager on MBR” (in a form of a simple checkbox
or something) is greatly needed in the installation process, not
only for the majority of their customers who buy LindowsOS as a
standalone product (not as part of a PC that is), but also for the
various reviewers. The positive side is that in their GUI-based
boot manager LindowsOS includes the other bootable partitions found
on that PC, so not all is that bad…”

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