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[CLUG] Redmond Linux (was: Promising?)

[CLUG] Redmond Linux (was: Promising?)

Kevin O'Riordan k_oriordan at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 5 17:05:31 GMT 2002


Does it actually run Windows applications well?

>
>I did download it - it's got appalling support for hardware. Kinda reminds
>me of BeOS when it came out first and you didn't have a SB card/ATi 
>graphics
>and a 3Com NIC then you were screwed.
>
>IMHO it's kindof a retrograde step from RH and Mandrake really.... sure 
>it's
>got the XP-ish looking GUI but that's nothing that you couldn't sort out
>yourself with a bit of messing around with themes in KDE
>
>(And the Network Browser doesn't work...)
>
>ATB,
>
>Derek
>
>"It's all fun and games till someone losses [sic] an eye"
>Derek Noonan, Software Engineer, Clarus Corporation
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: R.Y.Fixer [mailto:fixer at vigilante.net]
>Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 7:57 PM
>To: Donogh Roche
>Cc: cork at linux.ie
>Subject: Re: [CLUG] Promising?
>
>I never did download Redmond Linux, now Lycoris.
>
>Lindows/Robertson is already being sued, that guy sure seems to love
>lawsuits as means of PR.
>
>http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/02/01/lindows.os.ap/index.html
>
>
>
>On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 19:45, Donogh Roche wrote:
> > http://www.lindows.com/
> >
> > ( From the FAQs: http://www.lindows.com/lindows_products_faqs.php )
> >
>
>
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