Re: Opinions on Lindows Mobile PC
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 01:33 am, 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.
> -Kev
to bad you have to pay for click n crap
if your gonna pay for a distro buy libranet. their system does not die if you
apt-get from the main tree...at least that is what they say on OSNews....why
anyone would pay 60 bucks for a distro when debian is free and easy to set up
is beyond me.
Jeremy
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