If you read this Interview, with Kevin Carmony of Lindows...

well, you'll see his head shot, and realize he's quite proud of himself...

And kinda generous.

Check out page 3 of the interview. Ok.OK. It's in the Answer to Question 6.

Yep. A free copy of Lindows Developer 4.5. That also gets you straight Lindows 4.5, and the Lindows CD as well. Via Digital Download

OR you can use the $59.95 coupon, to have the $69.95 Retail Box sent for $10 plus shipping via Snail.

Enjoy. But hurrym they's gonna pull this promo quick. Their server's being hammered.

LurkHere

And of course, for 56kps dialup it will be 24 hours.
I think I would need a "pal" who has cable modem to do the DL for me, or pay the $10 ship. Since I doubt I could play any of my games on this, no way. It's either freebie DL with no CC info taken, or it's cancelroo.

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There is a thread at AnandTech, BTW. I should have given those props earlier.

Anyway, if you made it to the Free Trail for CNR, then as you said you'll get the mail and you have 'purchased' the product. Purchased for $00.00, but purchased none the less.

If you get back to that screen, you'll see you are a level or two down in 'mylogin'. While you can nav from the upper menu buttons, it is easier from the left hand menu (frame ?)

You were on the 'Welcome' page, you want the 'My Products' page. Then 'CD Downloads'.

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For anyone else: I went in every circle possible last night before posting. I built accounts to get it shipped. I had my FW blocking the sites cookies and throwing me hither and yon.

Another headache is that, probably since they are secure pages, the little graphic image bubble buttons can take a while to load. Especially the 'Process Order' one on almost the last page.

It may look like your done, but you are not. That's why at Anand, you'll see folks talking about d/ling 'source'.

They do not have the order in place, and are getting the normally available open 'source', not the ISO's.

When done properly, you'll have 3 or 4 ISO's you can d/l.

Yes, one is for running Lindows from CD, without installing the OS to an HDD.

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I'll be borrowing a high speed connect in the next few days.  

LurkHere

You were on the 'Welcome' page, you want the 'My Products' page. Then 'CD Downloads'."

Yeah, got the email. And was on the page with the asking for the 15 day trial. I went into the My downloads link on left and found not just the one item listed, but the pile of them. I figured i would be just going through the order process all over again.

I would still need some VOLUNTEER pal on cable/DSL, to get the DL for me.
I can't have this rig online for 24+ hours straight. The other users would need to jump on, and the ISP/phone company will never let it ride without a disconnect or 2 or 3. And I already decided I ain't going to pay no $10+, for something I won't install for some time yet, which by then will be 2 versions old anyway. And for webbing the Bingoaholic will go berserk trying to lean something new. And my games won't work so it would be more of a wishful thinking deal till it really gets going.

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I think I know where your volunteer is. The one that say: Lindows CD, is the one you can run from a CDRom without installing, BTW.

LurkHere

Cable/DSL is "supposed" to be a 2 hour or abouts DL.

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That 'purchase' got you at least 3 versions of the software.

The dev install ISO for 4.5

The straight, normal install ISO for 4.5

Both of those make installation CD's like everyone else.

But you can also download what they call the Lindows CD (ISO), which also makes a CD, but this CD is Not for installation, but to run the Lindows OS from your CDRom drawer.

Fully contained, no installing to an HD.

That's why some dudes will take these and plop them on a 1 gig key drive. You can run whatever you need, off someones USB port.

LurkHere

I also had to go back to my onboard video. After the initial startup screen it just faded to black. I have a similar problem working in dos but don't have this problem with Red Hat 7.2.

Any ideas?

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I'm really more interested in the run from CD version right now.

Ms.A

Excuse me. Would you pick that up for me please?
I seem to keep loooosing my head!

I have the Dev version and made sure the CD booted, but haven't had a drive to really add it to.

We've had a couple of machines go out, but they have all been pretty quick builds and XP only.

LurkHere

Ms.A

Excuse me. Would you pick that up for me please?
I seem to keep loooosing my head!

The deals are fairly quick. Once the word starts traveling the numbers add up.

I'm sure we can post an update if it becomes available again.

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Generally, generally... a Linux distribution can run with less CPU and memory power than a Windows System.

This one tries to run M$ applications and is newer so maybe the 800 MHz is the lower limit, I really don't know.

I do have a copy sitting on a 600 PIII machine, that needs to be burned out to disk. I can try to boot it there, but it'll be a few days before I can mess with it.

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In any of the Linux installs, hardware recognition and compatibility is often the sore spot for folks migrating from Windows.

Seems like sometimes we don't see the forest for the trees, but Bill $ Co. have done a heck of a job, putting out a flexible, compatible OS for not really that much money.

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But hey, a free disk that runs from the CDRom, is one heck of a way to find out.

LurkHere

Ms.A

Excuse me. Would you pick that up for me please?
I seem to keep loooosing my head!

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Ms.A

Excuse me. Would you pick that up for me please?
I seem to keep loooosing my head!

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That way I could check it out a bit without setting up one of my drives for this.

I still am moving stuff from the gamer W98 drive to the empty drive I got so I can try out XP Pro on that drive. My at home computing is going slow because of our remodeling. I got 3 doors left to varnish and some cement patching to do on floor, then carpet/linoleum comes, then I move my computer stuff in. So I didn't want to fart with bigger time consuming stuff till I get moved. Still haven't even used my new printer yet. Got no where to stick it yet.

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