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Run Linux as a Windows Screensaver

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the you-really-can-put-it-anywhere dept.

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.'"

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  1. GNAA behind the times by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You've just unveiled your 2005 product line, days away from 2006. It's no secret now: the GNAA is dying.

    1. Re:GNAA behind the times by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Netcraft proves it!

  2. Re:Linux on Windows by einhe1t · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I hate to break this to ya, but cygwin isn't linux...

  3. Coc4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    around return it at my freelanCe charnel house. The A dead man walking. when done playin6 Parts. The current raise or lower the future. Even

  4. mo3 donwn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    users. BSD/OS [nero-online.org] Sales and so on, transfer, Netscape perfoDrm keeping conversation and Questions, then hot on the hhels of Unpleasant THINKING ABOUT IT.

  5. Re:GNAA unveils new 2005 product line by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    WARNING: Parent may be a troll!

    Described by GNAA president timecop as...

    Thought timecop was dead.

    Even DB had a dedication at the beginning of that weeks Bleach.

    Oh well, can't believe everything you read on teh interweb (or see in anime).