Comment Re:Who is buying these? (Score 3, Informative) 702
I bought one. I'm a programmer, with most of my work on UNIX. I, however, have to get to the UNIX box through a MicroSh*t Windows box, and have to also use Word and Excel. To be honest, I'm sick of it....
In all honesty, I'm not so thrilled with Lindows. There was no documentation, they did away with man (although most everthing is there in their "documents" tool), and promised software didn't seem to be installed. No biggie, I went and got it for free from the 'net.
I will probably end up putting Mandrake or Red Hat on it when I've got more time...
The big thing was I needed to set up a home network with printer sharing and it would have been more of a hassle to try to upgrade my Pentium 150 so that I could load a Linux Distro and all the hassles of dealing with old, proprietary Packard Bell components.
This thing got me up and running fast and cheap. I'll by the speed demon PC later....
BTW, there's no way in Hell I'd put a pirated copy of XP (or Me, 9x, NT) on this computer. It is blissfully MS free!
~whidbey
In all honesty, I'm not so thrilled with Lindows. There was no documentation, they did away with man (although most everthing is there in their "documents" tool), and promised software didn't seem to be installed. No biggie, I went and got it for free from the 'net.
I will probably end up putting Mandrake or Red Hat on it when I've got more time...
The big thing was I needed to set up a home network with printer sharing and it would have been more of a hassle to try to upgrade my Pentium 150 so that I could load a Linux Distro and all the hassles of dealing with old, proprietary Packard Bell components.
This thing got me up and running fast and cheap. I'll by the speed demon PC later....
BTW, there's no way in Hell I'd put a pirated copy of XP (or Me, 9x, NT) on this computer. It is blissfully MS free!
~whidbey
