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Run Linux as a Windows Screensaver
zornorph writes "A software engineer at IBM has come up with a way to 'construct and package a Linux® LiveCD so that it will install using the standard Microsoft® Windows® install process and will operate as a standard Windows screensaver.'"
This is cool, as long as you don't need to use your keyboard or mouse.
Since when has this country used intellectual elite as a pejorative term?
To boot Knoppix, I'm going to have to wait 5 minutes?
Why do I get a feeling Microsoft's spyware program will detect this as malware?
Am I the only one® to find non-legal documents® polluted by legalese bullshit® extremely annoying®?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Mox
You run Windows and the screen saver kicks in...
And it runs Linux with Wine, and the screen saver kicks in...
And it runs Linux with Wine, and the screen saver kicks in...
Ad Infinitum...
The article doesn't make it clear why it should run as a screensaver... is the ISO interactive? How does one escape the screensaver? Why not just run it stand-alone?
No no no, you don't understand, while it runs as a screensaver, it's building Gentoo. Only after it's done can you run it standalone...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Finally. A reason for the screensaver function in Windows.
"The article doesn't make it clear why it should run as a screensaver... is the ISO interactive? How does one escape the screensaver? Why not just run it stand-alone?"
It's made for educational purpose, once it starts it captures the mouse and keyboard so that you can't exit to Windows, and you're forced to use Linux until you nail it.
A caveat was quickly discovered however: if you stop so the Linux screensaver turns on, you're back to Windows. Go figure.
Why? So when someone says, "nice screen saver, but does it run Linux?", he'll be able to say yes.
The Farewell Tour II
Subject: Hi!
Body: How are you ?
When I saw this screen saver, I immediately thought about you
I am in a harry, I promise you will love it!
Attachment: Linux.SCR
as a linux game. It's pretty fun... if you don't get a virus in 14 minutes you win!
They should at least recommend a specific product, else the remaining OS/2 userbase will entirely fragment.
What, both of them?
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
Does this mean I can run 3D Pipes as an OS?
Blessed are the 1337, for they shall pwn the earth.
"the [thing} you can see but you can't touch?"
Girls?
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not entirely sure about the universe - Einstein
Now you can let the screensave run and go into another OS and then the screensaver on that runs and you go into another OS and then the screensaver on that runs and you go into another OS and then the screensaver on that runs and you go into another OS and then the screensaver on that runs and you go into another OS and then the screensaver on that runs and you go into another OS and then the screensaver on that runs and you go into another OS and then the screensaver on that runs and you go into another OS... ARRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!! MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!!
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
What, I have to wait until next week?
Because it sounds like he may be a little new here:
"but does it run linux" was the question asked of the first new Windows release since Linus coded Linux.
Finally, we have an answer.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
What, I have to wait until next week?
I know this is slashdot, but you don't have to rub in how much faster your state-of-the-art processor is then mine. I'll have to wait until next YEAR!
Computers allow humans to make mistakes at the fastest speeds known, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns
I think the phrasing in this scenario is usually "I happen to know both of them."
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!