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LindowsOS Softens Microsoft-Compatibility Claim

Posted by timothy on from the wise-move dept.

jukal writes: "As seen originally at newsforge: On Friday we reported the appearance of Microtel PCs with LindowsOS pre-installed at Walmart.com. Then, Walmart.com and Lindows were claiming that LindowsOS 'delivers the stability of UNIX with the ease of Windows and the ability to run most Microsoft programs.' Today, that last phrase has gone missing and there is no more talk of running any programs designed for Windows, let alone Microsoft products"

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  1. editors by nihilist_1137 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I guess they dont even read the submissions anymore. That messed up html sticks out.

  2. or run 15 OSes by paradesign · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Windows 3.1/95/98/SE/ME/NT/2000/XP
    DOS
    Linux
    BeOS
    Lindows
    OS X
    OS 9 (classic)
    Darwin

    OS X and VPC, solves all of your puny OS problems on the best hardware!

    --
    I want 2D games back.
  3. Re:shortcuts? by MemeRot · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yes, shortcuts, and symbolic links, are ways of SIMULATING what i'm talking about within the constraints of a traditional file system. I really bumped into the file system problem because I do a lot of music production and have a huge (4 - 5 gig) loop library of license-free, legitimate samples I wanted to be able to share. The sequencing program I use is file system sensitive, it expects to find the file (and not a shortcut) in the same place it was last time. It can find it if it's not, but it's a pain. So I didn't want to move my library. At the same time, I didn't want to allow general access to that particular folder to the outside world, it has a lot of stuff I didn't want to share. I usually just copy any file I want to share and stick it in a special 'Shared' folder that actually is a share and that I point all file sharing programs towards, but that seemed ridiculous for 4 to 5 gigs and would have taken most of my empty space on the drive. And again the actual files would need to be there.

    Anyway, then all the file sharing programs I actually liked (sorry open source zealots, but Gnutella just does NOT scale) started folding so I just gave up on the proposition. But it would have been really convenient in this case to allow the same file to really seem to be accessible in two locations.