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Distribution review: LindowsOS 4.0 Linux

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A little help in making the decision whether LindowsOS is for you.
It should also be pointed out that Lindows found my XP installation, mounted the NTFS drive read-only and the FAT32 crossover partition as writable, and placed them under /disks. I found this to be a fairly logical placement, as a newbie might not find /mnt to be logical. While the notion of /windows seems to be a common one, /disks is arguably a better terminology for all Linux distros to use, since there's no assumption that it will always be Windows Linux is replacing.

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 read more | mail this link | score:7582 | -Ray, November 6, 2003
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