Q: anyone . anyone tried?
Re:keep in mind that the GPL does not prohibit you from charging money. what it does allow is for the purchaser to redistribute the software. so theoretically someone could set up a free 'click-n-run' mirror, with all of the gpl software, and not be penalized. also lindows should provide you with the source code of the gpl software you are buying, either free or at most, the cost of the media (cdr, or i suppose bandwidth)
Re:Goto Wal-Mart to learn all about it..
They are the only place I can think of that sells it.
Re:some guy wrote a review I think on osnews.com perhaps can't remember and he said you can use apt-get install just fine. I personally will never try it. I know one co-worker who did buy it and he's a windows user 100%.
Re:I too have tried Lindows and agree with guy's stataments about it, but I will say this was the fastest OS I have ever installed, about 5 minutes from beginning to reboot. This OS was also in total contrast to the newest bloated nixes like Redhat and Drake, it was very stripped lacking many native apps already installed and configured, guess that's why they have the click n run huh? FWIW I personally like Lycoris over Lindows by leaps and bounds.
Re:Just thought I would post this here. I have been testing out Lindows now for the last week, and I want to say this up front.
Yes, you can install Lindows without a network. And yes, you can run it without paying for the full version, but you won't be able to do much in either case.
The install CD is completely stripped down, and just includes the basics to get it up and running, with SAMBA and Wine as well as some basic other things needed (XFree86, KDE, etc.), but it is completely, and I mean COMPLETELY useless without the ability to connect to the network and pay for a full license. It is utterly stripped of any/all standard linux documentation (i.e. man command is not installed), it has no compiler, no rpm –install, and very few of the standard linux installed programs. You will not be able to install anything without first getting a network connection, paying for a license, and then downloading from "Click-N-Run" a compiler. So, in a sense, the OS they give you needs the full lisence for you to do anything with its normal linux operations, and in my opinion a really bad way to force you to pay for the lisence. In a sense, you are paying for the ability to run free, open source software on the system, because you can't install any of it untill you pay for it and download it through their own proprietary website.
I personally feel that this should be handled in a completely different fashion. You should not be forced to buy a lisence for you to run software that is already free for everyone to run. What should have been done is have you pay for the lisence to use any of their own proprietary software that Lindows itself has written and created. THAT would have been the correct way to do this, and not disable the ability to install and run free software already developed by thousands of other people who have worked hard and released the tools in a GNU lisence or some other lisence format. In a sense, what Lindows is making you pay for is free software that other people have created. IANAL, but I would think that this would be against the GNU lisence, but I am sure that real lawyers have in fact already made sure that what Lindows is doing is "legal". I just feel that they are just making money by forcing you to pay for access to free software. This should not be the way to do things. It should be either you can not install the OS at all without a lisence, or the limited install that you can do without the lisence should limit all proprietary code written, not free software.
I also could be completely wrong and missed a way to install gcc so that it is possible to compile other code and software, but to my knowledge the only way to install gcc is through the "Click-N-Run" system, which requires a lisence for gcc.
On a side note, I have to admit that I was very impressed with the ease of the install process, and how well it auto-detects and scans the network(s) for windows domains, printers, etc. In that sense, it was the easiest "linux" install I have ever done.
Re:Originally posted by: here4amission
anyone…anyone tried it?
Would, but I'm not about to pay $99 just to try it and then find out that it is not up to my liking.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Geez… How long has it been out? Like 2 years almost? IMO, it would be in everybody's best interest just to get good ol' Linux. I'd hate to see what Lindows offers, like the bugs that come with Windows, so you feel like you're right at home.
Yeah, And I can't wait to see peoples face's who bought those machines, got them home and then found out that thier "Windows" programs won't work on their "Lindows" machine..
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Re:Geez… How long has it been out? Like 2 years almost? IMO, it would be in everybody's best interest just to get good ol' Linux. I'd hate to see what Lindows offers, like the bugs that come with Windows, so you feel like you're right at home.
Re:i read an article on ATOT about Lindows being shipped with PCs purchased @ walmart. I've never personally used it, although i'd be interested in trying it.
-=guy=-