anyone tried out Lindow yet? What's so good about it and what's bad? Anyone know.. I was gonna get it but i didn't (yet) so i wanna know what i'm getting into

never even knew it was out yet , but just checked out the site n it says its not out yet...

A beta of it leaked out a few days ago



i wouldn't bother with it, its pretty stupid. Plus, its so ugly;)

hmm heard about it but never knew it was available..

it's on isonews:D

I got a preview version, but haven't gotten it to work just yet.

Well a new version of LindowsOS was leaked to IRC today, so being the beta happy tester that I am, I quickly downloaded my copy and got that bad boy on a CD. I plugged in my spunky 4GB test HDD, popped in my shiny new LindowsOS CD, and rebooted.

Test Machine:

Well, read my sig

I was pleasently greated by this nice boot screen:



About 5 minutes later, yes, you read that correctly, 5 minutes later, it started to load to my HDD. After about 2 minutes of loading, it shined this screen at me:



Now I thought this was odd, considering it didn't really load all that much to my HDD, but being the optimist that I am, I gladly took out the CD and complied with a reboot. Upon rebooting, this is the screen I was welcomed with:



Well, I know the typing is small down there at the bottom, but that is the good old "BOOT DISK FAILURE, PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER." Ugh.

Well being the do0b that I am, I did this. Inserted that damn LindowsOS CD, and went to town all over again, and you know what happend? The exact same thing. WooHoo.

On a side note:

Version: LindowsOS 0.90 Sneak Preview rc31

Build Info:

And it appears that you have to be running Windows2000 or ME in order to 'Experience a Sneak Preview,' so clean installs appear to be out of the question. Again, WooHoo.

lo0l

jesse ;-)

i've seen it too but didn't get it cuz i didn't want to go thru the headache of formatting my system if it caused problems and all that since i'm running XP anyways... I would rather see SS of the GUI so take those instead!

I had the same results here, and just as odd results when I tried to install it from within Windows 98SE.

so any images of the GUI?

I guess you guys have an inability to read, or perhaps I didn't make it as crystal clear as it appears I would have to in order for you guys to understand. At any rate, my post clearly says that I had no luck installing the damn thing...so that would mean that it would be impossible for me to get screenies of the GUI. Duh

jesse ;-)

ewwwwwwww IRC ewwwwwwwwwwwww

win2k rox

Wow, Lindows is powered by Xandros, didn't know that...

Just use mandrake 8.2 and wine, it is the same thing

actually debian and wine.



Please move this to Linux Distros

There are some screenshots on the lindows site now

Moved to Linux. Threads Meged

MxxCon and jesse, NO WAREZ, dammit! Any mentioning of ISONEWS and downloading files off IRC is warez!

true, that is against the rules. i quote:



No Warez (links) & Cracks: help. requests or posts that discuss circumvention



:right:

Don't be so sure of yourself there,ISONEWS is perfectly legal, they only mention whats been leaked and the forums over there lock any discussion of where to find releases just like here.Also they take out serials from NFO's when posting....FYI,there forums are just like here rules-wise and most posts refer to gaming/other stuff.

lol this thread has been dead for over 5 months