Re: Opinions on Lindows Mobile PC
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:33, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 12:54, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> > Greetings list,
> >
> > I have been looking at purchasing a new computer for a few months
> > now. <snip>
>
> Hi Roberto,
> When this first came out I emailed idot.com and my primary concern
> was battery life as it seems most ads leave this out. My email reply
> was about 2 hours. I am a fan of the transmeta which will get 4 to 11
> hours. I also was part of an experiment to install lindows 3.0 on a
> pc. It seems to be based on 'stable'. I tried to do an 'update' and
> kill the thing. Usings apt-get on lindows is like being a bull in a
> china shop, proceed at your own risk. Also lindows removed virtual
> terminals, so if you mess-up the gui login, you can not goto a vt to
> fix it. BUT other than that it is a nice remake of the gui and if you
> use the
> 'click=n-run' software,etc. all is fine.
I thought the OP said that he is not interested in Lindows as a
software, and is willing to wipe Linodows off the system and install
Debian on it.
Cheers
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