Lindows

Barry K. Nathan

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Bozo said:
Has anybody tried Lindows yet? What do you think?

I haven't tried it, but I heard a while back that it had a "run everything as root" paradigm (i.e., that it was insecure). I don't know if that's changed since then.
 

Mercutio

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The idea has some merit, I think, but after looking at lindows.org, what I see is a plain ol' Linux distro with WINE already installed.
It looks like the only value they add is the "click and run warehouse", a means of distributing both Windows applications that will run under WINE and linux applications that work in a manner similar to Windows apps.

It's based on debian, so I'm sure it's a nice product, but I'd really want to look at how things (e.g. mounting disks, security patching) are handled before I make any final judgement.
 
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