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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. WHY IS SLASHDOT. SO GAY? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Please tell. Thanks.
    SCO rules.

    1. Re:WHY IS SLASHDOT. SO GAY? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I don't know. I also don't know what makes me come back every day to read those boring "news" and get pissed at those idiot geeks who think that they're somehow super-intelligent because they read a Linux-howto.

      Maybe it's because I know that they're all getting laid off (!) in the near future.

  2. OpenLindows.com? by dzym · · Score: 2, Troll

    Surely the best thing to do with that domain is to redirect it to www.debian.org? Or maybe knoppix.org at a pinch.

  3. lindows... I still don't get it by joeldg · · Score: -1, Troll

    I still don't get lindows..

    WalMart was selling lindows boxen..

    but.. why you want to muss up X with a windows looking interface? I mean.. doesn't that defeat the purpose? ...

    --
    anime+manga together at last.. in real time.
  4. Questions about OpenLindows by kjj · · Score: 0, Troll

    This OpenLindows sounds interesting and I would love to give it a try. I went to the site and they have some software for OpenLindows but I wasn't able to find any links or info on how to download and install OpenLindows. Does anyone else have some information on this?

  5. PULL MY TAIL AND MY PENIS POPS UP. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    gayness is a form of gayeity which is a form of fag0rtry which is very very gay,.

  6. Re:The Lindows market. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm sick of people referring to Microsoft's inadequacies. Just because Gates and Ballmer have teeny little weenies (giggle) doesn't mean they're not (snort) people too. Judge them on their (guffaw) work, not on their wankers. It's not polite to laugh at people just because they've a little tadger (ROFL).

  7. I like Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It is the best. I think that everybody should use Linux.

  8. Merely use last non-gpl of WINE vs GPL of WINE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Merely use last non-gpl of WINE vs GPL of WINE!

    take the last known non-gpl version of WINE (I have it)

    rewrite the parts changed by the best known recent source-code-avaialble version of GPL version of WINE and integrate.

    laboriously try to determine waht few enhancements Lindows wine has that neither of the other two lacked and enineer a few changes...

    then you have a non-gpl version of a product worth millions of dolalrs to walmart as well.

    PROFIT!

    its what all the hypocrites do.

    there are nearly a hundred open source projects that eventually when proprietary. including databases. (CDDB! , IMDB! , etc)

    the "open" world is full of hypocrites and liars.

    at least the BSD (freebsd, openbsd, netbsd) guys are not hypocrite liars

    cdrecord? HAH! cripple ware so you have to buy the fork with dvd-r!

    people get help for BOCHs then bottle it up slowly next.

    everyone asks for help from more skilled experts on source forge then stop releasing source.

    lindows saga is just one of 100 hypocritical stories.

    but THANKFULLY many have the last known non-gpl source of wine and the current open WINE.

    too bad no one leaks the proprietary xwine like DOOM 2 sources