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Michael Robertson Interview about Lindows

Posted by Hemos on from the making-it-work dept.

unclegus writes "I ran across this article talking about Michael Roberston and Lindows. Says a "Sneak Preview" will be available in a few weeks. Release 1.0 will be $100 for single user ..." Dan Gillmor, the author of it, has said that it appears to be the real thing - I'll be interested in getting my hands on it.

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  1. Interesting work, from a technical aspect by Marx_Mrvelous · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From the info in the article, it seems that they are either erverse-engineering the Windows APIs, or mimicking the functionality with their own code. This is a time-consuming task.

    Also, they said they are focusing on only 10 or so applications. They list Work, Excel, etc. But what about future revisions of these programs? I wonder if Ms would purposefully change them to break under Lindows, which Lindows would have to change to accomodate.

    So will this become a perpetual 'chasing' game, trying to catch up to Microsoft?

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  2. Screenshots by jwilhelm · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There are two screenshots of Lindows in use here:

    http://www.lindows.com/lindows_products_screensh ot s.php

    It looks impressive to me (so far).