LindowsOs - Was: [H-GEN] Supporting Mozilla

[Tony Bilbrough]

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G'day David & Sandra,
I was wondering if you, or any one else, have tried Xandros? Its a 
Debian based package.
I bought a copy a while back [about $70, though I can't remember for 
sure] and it works fantasticly well.
I am about to set my wife's computer up with it to see if I can wean her 
[and hopefully Cath Ed, eventually] away from the more expensive MS 
products.
There are a few small anoying things, but:
like it really does run more slowly than its counterpart, and Open 
Office [pre packaged] takes a fair while longer to fire up too.
While it can read Word documents, it sometimes seems reluctant to 
produce a .doc the other way, one that can be read on the schools' MS 
run computers.

Though none enough to make me want to change to another flavour of Desktop.

I have not yet tried Lindows, but guess I could get a trial copy at the 
next Humbug, on Saturday?
It would be most interesting to compare them on the same machine.

As for Mozilla. Great programme. I use nothing else - for Web and for 
Mail. But I have yet to try the latest version.
A bit of 'if it works, leave it alone' now, as most of my Linux update 
experiences have been somewhat more than a little traumatic.
On 2 occasions, somewhat more like an emetic administered to the entire 
contents of my HDD.

cheers Tony B

David Seikel wrote:

  I have been playing with the LindowsOS boot from CD for a little while, so
> that I can add it to my general "boot from any OS across the network"
> server.  There is some hardware it doesn't like very much, and it gets
> stuck in a loop.  It gets as far as finishing the KDE login (KDE splash
> screen goes away) and then resets to just before X starts up.  This happens
> on some boxen, but it works fine on others.  Knoppix offers much the same
> "boot into X from CD" capability but seems to be more stable.  On the other
> hand, LindowsOS is closer to a Windows experience, so might be more suited
> to weening people from the Gates of Borgdom, if it works.
> 
>  --- Sandra Milne <fakungabubu at internode.on.net> wrote: 
> 
>>I've had lots of questions about LindowsOS as well. Unfortunately I've 
>>never used it or seen it used so I'm not helpful in that regard. Anyone 
>>have any experience with it?
> 

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dd if=quoll_id of=/dev/fd0
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