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 [1/7] from: enter:your:email:address:here:rebol:(example: at: 15-Jun-2002 20:54


Hi, Disclaimer: I am not a Lindows employee, nor paid by Lindows to advertise. I just thought that some of you on the list would like to see a review from an actual user of Lindows... Has anyone used Lindows (www.lindows.com) yet? I just ran REBOL/View from Lindows SPX for the first time, and was incredibly impressed when the text came up crystal clear from the start! Just thought that some of you who would like to use Linux, but can't quite walk away from some of your Windows apps might like to know that someone is looking to provide transparent Windows emulation inside of Linux. ] Lindows, from the founder of MP3.com is based on the Xandros distrobution of Linux, and is Debian based. It is probably the easiest version of Linux to install. Lindows has a long way to go before it is a complete product. I have only successfully installed a few programs. It seems that they are trying to emulate windows 3.x so it is limited, but I believe they are working on it... Enjoy!! Ammon PS, In case you can't tell by my previous posts, I have even fully configured my email client yet...

 [2/7] from: chalz:earthlink at: 17-Jun-2002 22:37


For a $99 one-year fee? Nah, that's okay. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Enter your name here (Example: Jane Doe)" <[Enter--your--email--address--here--rebol--net] (Example: [jane--company--com])>

 [3/7] from: g:santilli:tiscalinet:it at: 18-Jun-2002 12:19


Hi Ammon, On Sunday, June 16, 2002, 2:54:34 AM, you wrote: AJ> Has anyone used Lindows (www.lindows.com) yet? I just ran REBOL/View from Their site doesn't explain much, but it just looks like Linux with Wine to me. You get that with every distribution. :-) Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r

 [4/7] from: belymt:saunalahti:fi at: 18-Jun-2002 17:57


At 12:19 18.6.2002 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi Ammon, > >On Sunday, June 16, 2002, 2:54:34 AM, you wrote: > >AJ> Has anyone used Lindows (www.lindows.com) yet? I just ran >REBOL/View from > >Their site doesn't explain much, but it just looks like Linux with >Wine to me. You get that with every distribution. :-)
What I have understood, they have tried to make this emulation as invisible as possible so that end user needs not to tweak Linux details to run those windows softwares. So I consider it as a highly specialized distribution for non-gurus.. Considering how much new Windoze costs (with all updates) , it might not be a bad idea to try. Joanna

 [5/7] from: ammon:rcslv at: 16-Jun-2002 16:15


Hi, ;-) Lindows is pretty much Linux with Wine, but there are a few things about it that make it attractive like the fact that it is built on top of Xandros, which is the (IMHO) best distro ever, but "pure" Xandros is not yet available... It is also preconfigured to run your windows apps automatically with Wine. As I said before, Wine is an attempt to emulate Windows 3.x so it is basically a joke! I will personally be suprised to see 10% of all windows apps actually run functionally on Lindows. Enjoy!! Ammon On Tuesday 18 June 2002 06:19 am, Gabriele Santilli wrote:

 [6/7] from: ammon:rcslv at: 16-Jun-2002 16:20


Hi, Not a one-year fee, that is only for access to the Click-N-Run(tm) where(?)house. Which is just a fancy front end to apt-get, the heart of the Debian Distro. You will still be able to do complete upgrades after a year, just not of any of the custom Lindows apps. ;-) Enjoy!! Ammon On Monday 17 June 2002 10:37 pm, Charles wrote:

 [7/7] from: g:santilli:tiscalinet:it at: 18-Jun-2002 19:50


Hi Joanna, On Tuesday, June 18, 2002, 4:57:50 PM, you wrote: JK> What I have understood, they have tried to make this emulation as invisible JK> as possible so that end user needs not to tweak Linux details to run those Actually this just needs including a proper Wine configuration or configurator. Just to give an example, I tried running WinZip from my rather standard RedHat 7.2 configuration after setting up Wine's config file, and it succesfully ran, even placing an icon on GNOME's desktop (exactly like it does on Windows). So again, I don't see it as something that shaking... but this does not mean they will not succeed: they are actually marketing it, while no one is doing it in the same area (i.e. neither RedHat nor Mandrake are saying that their Linux distros are in any way compatible with some Windows software, at least not in such big letters :), and they are probably contributing to Wine's source to make it run more and more applications... Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r