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Mandrake on Walmart PCs



On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 07:23:50AM -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> 
> I have to admit, a couple things about how Lindows works has not
> impressed me.  The most notable is that they highly advocate running as
> root all the time.

How else do you expect to get Windows-like functionality :-)?

Nathan Meyers
nmeyers at javalinux.net


> On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 15:23, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > Hmm. It appears that Lindows is no longer making the Windows compatibility 
> > claims as it was also.
> > On 19 Jun 2002 at 15:10, Chris Tresco wrote:
> > > 
> > > Just read it on slashdot.  Thought it was prudent to post it here.  I
> > > think it is cool, but aren't they screwing Lindows??




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