First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

[Joel Hammer]

This is what I have. When I first ran apt-get, I was told I had to update my
sources, so I pressed Y and everything went automatically.

deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free

> For apt-get or synaptic to work, you need "sources", i.e. URL's, listed
> in /etc/apt/sources.list.
> This is where you can set the range of your updates to stable, testing,
> or unstable.
> What is listed in your Lindows?
> 


Regarding staroffice, I have these files, which look like all the other
debian package files:
/var/lib/dpkg/info/staroffice-common.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/staroffice-common.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/staroffice-common.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/staroffice-common.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/staroffice-common.preinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/staroffice-common.prerm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/staroffice.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/staroffice.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/staroffice.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/staroffice.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/staroffice.preinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/staroffice.prerm

So, it looks like a debian package.

Now, as to what this is called, it bills itself as Staroffice version 6.0. I
suppose that is supposed to suggest this is not open source software. It is
advertised as a $70 value. This is good, I suppose.

Well, now my next job is to figure out how to make this thang allow remote X
sessions. This could take a while. As I recall, libranet did that without
any effort on my part, but lindows doesn't seem quite so obliging.

Joel