| LindowsOS sneak preview -- it's not vaporware after all [NewsForge] |
Jan. 25, 2002
Good news! Tina Gasperson of NewsForge has proven beyond a doubt that LindowsOS is NOT vaporware. She actually installed and ran a copy of LindowsOS sneak preview that she found "lying around". Among other things, Gasperson reports that LindowsOS is based on Xandros Debian-based Linux distro, and that it uses WINE as its means of running Windows applications. Gasperson writes . . .
"I found a copy of the LindowOS sneak preview lying around and decided to try it out. If nothing else, the vaporware tag isn't going to stick anymore on Michael Robertson's latest venture."
"My test machine is an HP Omnibook 4150b. Lindows went on as the sole operating system. There's an option to install it from within Windows (but not every version of Windows), to run side-by-side with Windows, but we don't have that OS running at our house. There isn't an option to dual boot with Linux, so goodbye Mandrake 8.1, and hello LindowOS . . ."
"The installation was too easy. I didn't get any options and had nothing to configure. No language selection, no time zone, not even the X11. And it didn't take long . . ."
"A friend who signed up as a 'Lindows Insider' and agreed to share his LindowsOS experiences with us if we didn't use his name said his installation went the same as mine: Easy, but very limited . . ."
"Unfortunately, 99% of the Windows executables I attempted to run 'poofed.' This is the same experience I've had in other distributions when I used Wine -- which is what Lindows is using to get those Windows apps going . . ."
"This *is* a preview version, so glitches like this are to be expected. It will be interesting to see if LindowsOS 1.0 breaks through the 'Microsoft Applications' barrier . . ."
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