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OpenLindows.com: Wherefore Art Thou?

Posted by timothy on from the apt-get-transparent dept.

Joe Barr writes "I ran across a curious website recently: OpenLindows.com. The name alone intrigued me. It gave rise to speculation about a weird mix of free-as-in-beer and free-as-in-speech alternative to the $99/year Click-N-Run software subscription offered by LindowsOS, the most Windows-like/proprietary Linux distribution out there. This is a report on what I found, and perhaps even more importantly, what I didn't."

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  1. Re:sheesh by bobdinkel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    damn. beat me to it.

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  2. Re:My head hurts... by derrith · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    now that would: "my $.02 ($5.00 Canadian)"
    but enough about me, about my career....

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  3. Re:The parent is right by diatonic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    lilo: linux init=/bin/bash - Instant root without password

    That is why any sensible Linux Admin password protects the bootloader.

  4. Re:Swedish equivalent by vpetersen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't moderate and don't gather karma points so let me just verbally acknowledge that for me your post was +2 Interesting from linguistic point of view, although this discussion deviates from the original subject of OpenLindows, giving thus -1 Offtopic.

    Many constructs of similar nature are often reproduced independently in unrelated countries/languages. Examples are not provided as I can't type fluently (if at all) with non-English kbd layouts.

  5. My findings by duffbeer703 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It seems that 1/4 or more of Slashdot "stories" are advertisements, not content.

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