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Downloading packages from the Lindows Warehouse may take a while. The process doesn't work very well.
Small packages download well enough. Big packages on a slow dial-up connection are almost guaranteed to fail to download, at least the first few times. The downloading process isn't handled in a very intelligent manner.
Software exists to assure that downloads can be done reliably even when interrupted. Lindows doesn't use such an approach, preferring a brute force attack on the problem: if the download doesn't work the first time, they start over from scratch and then they quit after five tries.
The program has controls that say 'pause' and 'resume' -- or the equivalent -- so I presume they plan to fix the problem some time in the future. Right now, though, the problem is a glaring omission.
It would help, too, if it was more obvious how to find out if a package on the Warehouse list has already been installed on the user's system. As it is, I have had to start a list on my Clié to keep track of what I've tried to install and what has installed successfully.
Lindows should do that for me.
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Mac OS X, Jaguar.
Why are you using a dial-up? I thought you had broadband?
And as for James' comment: I have heard nothing but good things about Mac's OS X (and I am not a fan of Macs at all), but I believe it uses Darwin, which is a hybrid of BSD.