Posted by
timothy
on from the version-number-fever dept.
meisenst writes "Lindows 2.0.0 is out, and features, among other things, the ability to browse Windows network shares and map them as you would on a Windows machine. The ISO release notes are here(1), the announcement is here(2) (for now, anyway), and some screenshots are here(3). Looks good!"
Re:should i?
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Anonymous Coward
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jeebus that was a worthless reply. next time try giving some actual information rather than just saying "try it out for yourself".
are you a typical m$ user?
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w1r3sp33d
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"i'm a Microsoft(tm) user, could i use... " Let's see; lower case on all three i's (pulling away from your own identity?), got both the capital on the "M" and the (tm) to show proper respect and willie worship, yep good m$ user. No Linux for you, sorry you have been assimilated... In all seriousness my life has been better since I converted (at least I sleep well now...), I did RedHat 7.3 last time around and I find it an acceptable alternative 99% of my workday.
*OMG* are they still around!?
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Idaho
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How long will it last...I bet they will be gone in half a year or so (but I said this before - maybe they have too much money to burn before they die?)
WOW, so they offer SMB access now!! Oh wait, that is a screenshot of KDE 3.something - any recent Linux installation has that out of the box - I just checked and even mine has it (it works out of the box if you have samba+kde-base installed!)
They managed to compile wine as well!! Great! I mean, maybe my mother couldn't do that, but I bet Mandrake/Redhat/SuSE all have some easy 'install Wine' button somewhere around in their package tool.
Then I'm not even beginning to talk about their continuing blatant and I mean like *B-L-A-T-A-N-T* GPL violations.
As someone else remarked already: this company is a lawsuit (or rather: a lot of lawsuits) waiting to happen. If they don't die all by themselves first, that is - so far it looks like noone takes them seriously enough to even sue them.
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jeebus that was a worthless reply. next time try giving some actual information rather than just saying "try it out for yourself".
"i'm a Microsoft(tm) user, could i use... " Let's see; lower case on all three i's (pulling away from your own identity?), got both the capital on the "M" and the (tm) to show proper respect and willie worship, yep good m$ user. No Linux for you, sorry you have been assimilated... In all seriousness my life has been better since I converted (at least I sleep well now...), I did RedHat 7.3 last time around and I find it an acceptable alternative 99% of my workday.
How long will it last...I bet they will be gone in half a year or so (but I said this before - maybe they have too much money to burn before they die?)
WOW, so they offer SMB access now!! Oh wait, that is a screenshot of KDE 3.something - any recent Linux installation has that out of the box - I just checked and even mine has it (it works out of the box if you have samba+kde-base installed!)
They managed to compile wine as well!! Great! I mean, maybe my mother couldn't do that, but I bet Mandrake/Redhat/SuSE all have some easy 'install Wine' button somewhere around in their package tool.
Then I'm not even beginning to talk about their continuing blatant and I mean like *B-L-A-T-A-N-T* GPL violations.
As someone else remarked already: this company is a lawsuit (or rather: a lot of lawsuits) waiting to happen. If they don't die all by themselves first, that is - so far it looks like noone takes them seriously enough to even sue them.
Every expression is true, for a given value of 'true'
Lindows.. they sure seem like the Microsoft of the linux world bah
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