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Debian win32-loader Goes Official

Posted by kdawson on from the like-a-live-cd-on-steroids dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After a long process of review and polishing, the win32 loader from goodbye-microsoft.com has finally made its way to official Debian CDs. Latest daily builds of lenny (the development version) are including it, making starting Debian Installer as simple as just a few clicks (OGG). The win32-loader version, now based on GRUB 2, includes new features such as detection and pre-seeding of Windows settings, and is translated to 20 languages."

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  1. Huh? by spuke4000 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since none of the links in the story explain what the win32-loader is, can anyone explain what it does?

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    1. Re:Huh? by westlake · · Score: 2, Insightful
      Only if you choose to do so from within the installer.

      --- and only if the installer does what you tell it to do.

      I see a zealot's website with two sparse pages of text, some crappy screen shots, and links that lead nowhere in particular.

      Nothing that inspires trust in a program that can do unlimited damage to my system and files.

  2. Re:What? by LinuxGeek · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yup, including everyone running Ubuntu like me.

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  3. Re:Kind of Ironic... by suv4x4 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For an organization that dislikes Microsoft Corporation and the platforms distributed by them, they seem to spend an aweful lot of time developing software on or for it. [...] With such hypocracy, maybe they can join forces with the Global Warming crowd...

    That makes as much sense as calling it a hypocrisy that creating cure against illness require that you have ill subjects to test on.

  4. My first thought is virus by ACMENEWSLLC · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My first thought following the link is that this is a virus. When I follow a link that says "Good bye Windows" which wants to launch an .EXE with no explanation, what else would I think?

    I run Ubuntu in VMware. I thought from the article that perhaps I could run Windows programs inside Linux with this. Another WINE.

  5. Re:EULA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It always annoyed me that everyone seems to leaves these details out when comparing software.

    If you include the time needed to read, study and understand the EULA, then installing binary software on Windows takes way longer than installing from GPL source in Gentoo.
    There are only a couple of open source licenses, and they are usually short and easy to understand, while every little piece of closed software comes with a different license that usually changes on every update, or even without notice.

    Having a (good) lawyer read and explain the license to you, on every update of every piece of software hurts your TCO badly too. this could easily be the biggest part of the TCO, but is often left out.

    I don't have time to to read licenses (and probably could not understand the implications anyway), so I use these simple steps: click "I don't agree". If it doesn't install, add "+gpl" to your google search....