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  • From: Scott Russell <scottrus AT ipass.net>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Lindows - Anyone know much about it?
  • Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:26:39 -0400


On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 07:10:09PM -0400, Josef Komenda wrote:
> Initial thoughts are this:
>
> - Running Windows apps under wine suck rocks. If they can get it to work
> smoothly, 'bless em, but I doubt it. I reeeallly doubt it.
>

Forget Lindows. Check out Codeweavers Crossover Office. It runs MS Office
apps today. My personal experience has been very positive over all.

> - Lindows.com looks like a vanity site for Michael Robertson.
>
> - The site wants you to pay them $99 to be a beta tester. (They call it
> being a 'Lindows Insider')

I don't trust this guy. I think Lindows is in trouble before it even starts
out. Codeweavers dissolved their relationship from Lindows. I'm not surprised.

> - The Yahoo article mentioned that Lindows now runs Konqueror and has
> office doc plugings, so I'd guess that theyre tweaking out KDE
> (http://www.kde.org/), sort of like how Ximian (www.ximian.org) is tweaking
> out Gnome (www.gnome.org).

Again, Codeweavers Crossover Office and Crossover Plugin has been doing
this for a while. If you only need to view MS Office docs then the Crossover
plugin will work for you. (MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint viewers). If you
want to run Office apps then get Crossover Office.

Additionally, Codeweavers has stated publicly, and contractually with every
ISV it partners with, that all changes to WINE will be given back to the
WINE code base.

That just rocks.

--
Scott




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