First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

Ken Moffat kmoffat
Mon May 17 11:45:14 PDT 2004


Joel Hammer wrote:
> I tried the software junior shelf. Only a few titles. Prowrite is koffice's
> word processor, which loaded no problem. (version 1.1.1). Digikam loaded
> fine but didn't support my nikon coolpic 2500. Luckily, cdrecord is on this
> thing, so I could see my camera and just loaded it manually with:
> 
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera -t vfat
> 
> All the modules needed for this were already loaded.
> 
> This is actually quite handy since my main computer has been mangled by
> updating and can't load my camera any more. So, that problem is solved
> for now without having to reconfigure that box. Now, that was worth $200!
> 
> I'll likely spend $99 and join the warehouse, just to save myself some
> effort and see what they really have to offer.
> 
> Joel
> 

Is it true that you run as root in lindows?

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Ken Moffat
kmoffat <at> drizzle.com




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