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["Josep L. Guallar-Esteve" <jlguallar AT maduixa.net>]

El dia Divendres 14 Juny 2002 13:04, no tenies res mes que fer i vas i 
m'envies aquest e-mail:
> My apologizes for those of you for whom this is old news, but who could
> have predicted that Wallmart would someday be selling Linux PCs?

> http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product_listing.gsp?path=0%3A3944%3A3951%3A4
>1937%3A86796%3A96356&dept=3944&cat=96356&sb=61&bti=0

> You can get a 850MHz, 128Mb RAM, 10Gig system for $299, and be greeted by a
> lovely KDE desktop.

It includes Lindows, not Linux. 

For what I read, Lindows has the worst of both worlds: it defaults to having 
a 
non-login required single-user for every task... and this single user is root 
!!

Also, someone was able to get a Lindows-beta to get infected with Microsoft 
virii.


This is very wrong.

Get yourself Mandrake or RedHat or SuSE and add Codeweavers Wine / 
CrossOverPluggin / CrossOver MS-Office enabler / Transgaming WineX . Much 
better.


Also, AFAIK, there were some issues in respect of Lindows not abiding by the 
licenses (Wine and other open-sourc projects).


Can anyone corroborate /tell me how wrong I am? I'm talking about what I 
remember to have read around the ent / magazines and such.

Please, prove me wrong ... or tell me thjat I'm right.


Salut,
Josep
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Josep L. Guallar-Esteve, QA-Test Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
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