Lindows

[Kyle Faber]

On Friday 04 April 2003 06:42 pm, Jim wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, why Lindows?
>
The end goal is to replace every desktop with Linux in some form.  I supp=
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should have put that out there in the first post, but at this point I hav=
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been slowly transitioning us away from MS for so long that I don't even=20
remember it is an alternative as most reflexively do.  Sorry guys, you ca=
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all dream can't you?  ; )

As for lindows, the CEO was the one making the request and came across it=
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=46rom their website, I got the idea that perhaps they have made WINE=20
intergration a priority.  Still being stuck with a lot of windows apps=20
(engineering mostly, for which there are no OS equivalents), a distro tha=
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would have a possibility of running some of those apps is what I was hopi=
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for.

A distro that runs everyone as root is out of the question.  I don't trus=
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MYSELF that much.

If it is no spiffier than RH in the user experience department, then ther=
e's=20
my answer.  But, like I said, I am looking for the most win32 compatibili=
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for the price.

Kyle
EMR Internet
kyle@emr.net