| Lindows could give Linux life and worry Microsoft [SiliconValley.com] |
Jan. 09, 2002
In an article at SiliconValley.com, Dan Gillmor reports that Lindows.com is planning to release a sneak preview of its Lindows OS sometime in the next several weeks. Gillmor apparently met with Lindows.com founder Michael Robertson and saw a demo of a prototype of Lindows.com, in which several popular Microsoft Office applications were demonstrated on Robertson's laptop running Lindows. Gillmor writes . . .
"Michael Robertson started his IBM notebook computer. He launched a Microsoft PowerPoint slide presentation about a product he hopes to be selling soon. The product was the operating system he was running. Hint: It wasn't Microsoft Windows."
"Robertson was using Lindows, a version of the GNU/Linux operating system designed to run major Windows programs as well as software written for Linux itself. If he and his team pull this off, they could give life to Linux on desktop computers -- a genre that has been slow, at best, to emerge as a challenger to the Microsoft monopoly.
"The Linux community is skeptical about Lindows. Some extremely smart programmers -- such as the ones working on an open-source Windows compatibility project called Wine (http://www.winehq.com) -- are making slow, if steady, progress. Making this idea work in the real world is, as technologists like to say, a non-trivial task."
"Robertson says his team's focus and passion -- plus his ability to put real money behind the notion -- will prove the skeptics wrong and bring Linux to a more mainstream audience soon . . ."
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