I received a copy of their initial pre-release. It's ok but not wonderful. The area I take issue with is the default user being 'root' - you aren't told you are root or the consequences of running as root - it just automatically logs you in as root and brings you to KDE. This opens it up to trashing the system through user ignorance or a malicious virus - in essence exposing the user to the shortcomings of Windows 9x. What they neglect to tell the user is that they can change the default userid to a normal user id and help limit this exposure.
Lindows.com has some novel ideas - if they can put them all together and implement it properly they can have a descent product - but I wouldn't run out right away and buy a copy - let everybody else kick the tires for awhile.
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Re:Who's tried Lindows?
Posted by: Rocky on June 20, 2002 03:53 AMLindows.com has some novel ideas - if they can put them all together and implement it properly they can have a descent product - but I wouldn't run out right away and buy a copy - let everybody else kick the tires for awhile.
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