eWeek's Jason Brooks examines the ever controvercial Lindows GNU/Linux distribution. “These, however, are the first words I've written about Lindows. The Lindows Insider program, in which individuals pay a $99 subscription fee in order to beta test free software, rubbed me the wrong way, as did the company's insistence on delaying any product reviews of Lindows to some indeterminate spot in the future.”
“Lindows is supposed to be an inexpensive Linux box appropriate for use by the uninitiated, and I think that it succeeds at that. The desktop environment for Lindows 2.0, the version I tested, is KDE, which matches Windows fairly closely in its appearance and operation. The interface is more utilitarian than attractive, and Lindows would do well to take some fit and finish cues from Red Hat's 8.0 release, but it's on the right track.”