Lindows

[Ed Skinner]

On Friday 04 April 2003 19:24, Kyle Faber wrote:
> On Friday 04 April 2003 06:42 pm, Jim wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity, why Lindows?
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> From their website, I got the idea that perhaps they have made WINE
> intergration a priority.  Still being stuck with a lot of windows apps
> (engineering mostly, for which there are no OS equivalents), a distro that
> would have a possibility of running some of those apps is what I was hoping
> for.

     Good point.
     The expectation may be that, with Lindows, everyone can run all their 
Microsoft-based programs, or that the Lindows technical support staff will 
make everything work. But I don't think that will happen. I don't think 
Lindows (or WINE) will *ever* be able to do this. Some Windows programs may 
never perform to the user's satisfaction in Lindows/WINE.
     My guess is you will want to have (or develop, or hire/contract) a fair 
bit of expertise with WINE regardless of what Lindows (or RedHat, for that 
matter) does. And even with that, you'll want to set the expectations of 
others carefully. There will be those for whom a Microsoft Operating System 
will remain as the best choice.

-- 
Ed Skinner, ed@flat5.net, http://www.flat5.net/