First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

[Joel Hammer]

A lot of stuff is missing from the standard install, like tcpdump!
Anyway, an article on the web pointed me in the right direction with
lindows.

>From the command line (get a konsole by running the konsole command from the
run command option in the menu.) run:

apt-get install synaptic

Then, go wild.

I don't see open office there, and gnucash won't download, so I'll
probably join the warehouse. Abiword was a snap, however.

That 1.1 Ghz Duron is doing ok. Right now it is ftp'ing my mp3's to the new machine,
running tcpdump, playing an mp3, and downloading more stuff with synaptic.

Life is good.

Joel


 On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 07:14:08AM -0500, 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
> 
> 
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