First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

[Joel Hammer]

Well I joined the warehouse.

I am not sure what I am getting for my money, but on the upside:
1. I couldn't download gnucash with synaptic or get-apt, but it came in
nicely with the warehouse.
2. Staroffice wasn't available with synaptic but it was with the warehouse.
3. When you install from the warehouse, you get a nice icon on  the
desktop without any hassle.

Aside from that, I am not too impressed. You are given the impression
that the software in the warehouse has been tested for lindows, but I am
being to think that they don't test this software on their own stuff.
Abiword gave me the unix font error and Doom froze my computer and
corrupted my ext2 partition on the hd I added to this machine (couldn't
repair it with fsck, it's gone). I really wanted to run xine, but xine
from synaptic froze my computer and the x server wouldn't restart again,
so I had to reinstall lindows. I was thinking that xine from the warehouse
would be safe, but, now I doubt it.

So, although I am enthused over the computer and lindows at the price,
I think the warehouse needs to be what it says it is to be worth the
money they are charging for it .

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 ....
>  snipped...
> I'll likely spend $99 and join the warehouse, just to save myself some
> effort and see what they really have to offer.