Sorry *just* saw this. 
I'm with Hans here. (though I loaded RH 8.0 on it). Lindows is *not*
meant for Linux users. its made for Windows users if you can live with
being *that* insecure or if you *need* the auto updates I guess its a
good idea. But for any serious linux users I'd suggest just starting
over with your favorite distro. 

Carl P. 

On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 11:08, der.hans wrote:
> Am 21. Dec, 2002 schwätzte Nathan England so:
> 
> > I'm seriously considering getting a microtel from wal-mart for my little
> > brother, if anything just to support the effort, but I have a question.
> > If I don't go with the 99 bucks a year plan, how hard is it to install normal
> > software on those things?
> > I mean like, source stuff, compile, make, and make install. Does it give you
> > all the development stuff you need? or would I be better rolling my own
> > distro on it?
> 
> debian installs and runs just fine on the $200 microtel boxen. I hooked up
> and ex-roommie and she's only had one problem with it. The problem was that
> the mouse click events were taking place a couple of centimeters from the
> pointer. This made playing mahjongg somewhat annoying :).
> 
> My theory is that amor caused the problem. Unfortunately quitting it and
> even restarting X didn't fix the problem. The problem was present under KDE
> and GNOME.
> 
> Doing the m$ shuffle fixed it.
> 
> I told her not to run amor again.
> 
> Lindows has only the root user and for that reason alone is not appropriate.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
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