Wal-Mart shipping PCs with Lindows preinstalled

[Tony Hammitt]

Actually, they modified it even more to make it just exactly like windows:
They set the default runlevel to 6.

*rimshot*

	Tony

Marvin GodfatherofSoul Bellamy wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
> >
>