I tried to install Lotus Notes and Smartsuite without success. I wasn’t so successful with other installs. To somewhat a suprise to me, Office2000 did successfully install and came up (brief check). I decided to go for it and try to install via windows install cd’s.
Since this was a clean install, it initially contained only a handful of applications contained in Lindows KDE-based install (though just about every game in the normal linux distros are included). The networking portion via pcmcia worked out of the box, using the same cards that did not work in my othre laptop. Oddly, it looks as though there are only a couple of resolutions supported for my video chipset and not the one that’s native but x came up without missing a beat at 1024X768 (machine is capable of 1400X1024). With a spare drive in hand, I installed it in a relatively current model laptop and found all hardware to be supported. It wasn’t able to see two known-linux-compatible network cards so I suspect the problem to be pcmcia (but am still working to determine this). The only issue I had with this install, in fact, appears to be lack of support for the pcmcia chipset the laptop I’m using has. Some of the text on the menus is sized incorrectly but was usable. Microsoft Office2000 has been verified and all applications came up for me. I say some only because I’m still walking thru all of them to determine what does work and what doesn’t. In addition, it was able to configure some of my applications to run under Lindows, essentially using WINE, I believe. It was able to successfully migrate a fair portion of Windows settings over to Lindows. The installation into an existing Windows partition went better than I expected.
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I happened to run both installs last night and was pleased for something that clearly was stated as missing pieces of function and being pre-released software (not sure if I’d even call it beta yet).
One is designed to install inside your existing Windows partition, the second being used as a clean install across a whole drive. The long awaited and much anticipated linux-based system comes in two flavors. “Lindows has released their first preview release 0.9 yesterday. The NewsForge article also includes three screenshots. In the meantime, NewsForge also published a more extensive preview of the Linux-based OS which aims to run Windows software out of the box without the need of a Windows operating system installed. OSNews reader Dave Merrill was lucky to get access to a preview version of the Lindows OS and inform us with his findings.
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