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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?

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  1. theoretically... by rograndom · · Score: 2, Redundant

    theoretically many DirectX games should run under Windows

    Theoretically speaking, of course

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  2. The difference between theory and practice.. by StikyPad · · Score: 0, Redundant

    theoretically many DirectX games should run under Windows.

    Theoretically, all of them should. Maybe they'll have better luck running under Wine. ;)

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