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"Lindows" Coming Soon?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the exactly-what-it-sounds-like dept.

nstbbuff sent in a link to a story running at ZD about Lindows, a recently funded startup founded by MP3.com's old CEO that plans to sell a WINE oriented Linux dist for $99. As usual I'm skeptical about these sorts of things, but provided code is released back, I'm down with it. Meanwhile Transgaming is doing their thing, but with game-specific stuff. Their flagship release is The Sims, but theoretically many DirectX games should run under Windows. I'm still skeptical -- I mean, how many closed WINE forks does the world need?

3 of 392 comments (clear)

  1. Mp3.com by Mirotrem · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am not sure, but it seems to me MP3.com is...going belly up.

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  2. vmware by wishus · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    How about vmware? It works now!

  3. LimpDows? by Alien54 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Yah yah, you meant Lindows.

    So long as it doesn't mutate into "Limpdows"

    or something else equally lame, or some other half cooked development effort.

    Let's not follow the MS pattern too closely here (as in 'never buy version 1.0 of anything')

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