Wal-Mart shipping PCs with Lindows preinstalled

[Marvin GodfatherofSoul Bellamy]

Lindows isn't just any distro is it?  From what I understand, they made 
kernel-level tweaks to support the big name M$ products.  I know jack 
about kernel hacking, but it would seem that that type of tweaking can 
lead to lots of problems when you're going cross-platform with it. Hope 
they beta'd the hell out of it first.  Lindows might be better suited as 
a sort of low-end, "My mom's computer" type of a machine.  Just satisfy 
the 90% (restating that guess) of low-end users, simple workstations, 
minimal hardware, slots, etc.

david nicol wrote:

>"Marvin \"GodfatherofSoul\" Bellamy" wrote:
>
>>It depends on how mature Lindows is.  From what I've heard, it has a
>>long way to go.  But, if they're able to get the basic
>>E-mail/Internet/Word Processing platform running, probably 90% of their
>>customers won't have a problem.
>>
>
>So any distro with koffice would be fine
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