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Lindows is the future of Mainstream Linux.

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Calum:
red hat comes with a complete complement of wizards, and mandrake has its own dedicated operating system control panel just like windows, red hat will even install a version of wine on there for you if you ask it to, and this is all over and above the excellent kde3 and gnome2 control centres.

Laukev7:
And why exactly should one prefer RH/Mdk/SuSE to Lindows?

[ June 06, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

TheQuirk:
For one thing, you're not automatically logged as root, a great, big, security "hole".

Pantso:

quote:Originally posted by Laukev7:
And why exactly should one prefer RH/Mdk/SuSE to Lindows?

[ June 06, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]
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1 - Security! As TheQuirk said, when installing Lindows you're always logging in as root. That is ONE BIG security hole in every *NIX-like OS!

2 - Configurability! Lindows doesn't let you do any kind of advanced configuration, unless you're a mazochist and like digging deep down and beyond those fancy GUI wizards that Lindows comes with.

3 - Control of your installation! Face it. With Lindows you don't have any option when installing it on your machine.

4 - Software! Lindows ships on one CD, I think. SuSE 8.2 on the other hand ships with 2 (!!!) DVDs of software to choose from as well as 7 CD-ROMS!

5 - Documentation! SuSE Linux comes with 2 500+ pages manuals. What does Lindows come with? Nothing!

If you're thinking of downloading a Linux distro, Lindows is not an option. SuSE isn't an option either, but RH, Mandrake and just about every Linux distro out there can be freely downloaded.

I hope I've answered some of your questions.  

oolooz:
Lindows 3.0 costs $129.

rh/mdk don't.

oolooz

Oh, the logged on as root thing, I beleive they fixed it in version 3.0

[ June 06, 2003: Message edited by: oolooz ]

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