[LINK] Lindows OS

[Chirgwin, Richard]

Certainly this company has learned one lesson from Microsoft: media strategy
precedes product strategy.

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Bob Jansen [mailto:Bob.Jansen@turtlelane.com.au]
Sent: Friday, 26 October 2001 10:59
To: link@www.anu.edu.au
Subject: Re: [LINK] Lindows OS


For Macintosh users. this functionality has been available for some 
time through products such as Virtual PC and Soft Windows. In fact, 
with Virtual PC and Mac OS X, I now have the ability to run, 
simultaneously, Mac OS, Windows (any flavour) and Unix. This is a 
great boon for me living in a cross platform world enabling me to 
seemlessly connect to Windows networks, Unix networks, Mac networks 
and run any app I like.

bobj

"In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding 
any thoughtful watcher that it is the desert and high places that 
religions  are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless 
infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and 
desparate urge to find someone to put in the way." Terry Pratchett, 
Jingo


>Hi there,
>
>Apparently this new Wine-like effort is at beta.
>
>(Must be carefull sharing news with link, ie, quoting
>the website rather than rewriting, haha, Craig spits it)
>
>"Lindows OS is built around a Linux core, it runs Linux software natively,
>[and also] PCs running LindowsOS have the ability to run both Linux and
>Windows software."
>
>"Lindows.com, <http://www.lindows.com> a 20-person San Diego company led by
>former MP3.com Chief Executive Michael Robertson, plans to sell a preview
>edition of the software this quarter, with version 1.0 coming in early
2002."
>
>"The software is based on the Wine open-source effort to mimic the commands
>that Windows programs use. Lindows adds proprietary software with
>improvements such as making fonts appear better or software install more
>easily .. "
>
><http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20011023/tc/start-up_creating_linux-window
s_combo_1.html>
>
>Cheers all ..
>Stephen Loosley
><www.stephen.hm>


bobj

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