Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 25 Dec 2002 2:21 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 23 December 2002 08:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 23 Dec 2022 1:09 pm, robin wrote: Richard Babcock wrote: Greetings, I was just surfing the Wal-Mart site and found them hawking an OS called Lindows. Anyone

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-25 Thread robin
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 25 Dec 2002 2:21 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 23 December 2002 08:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 23 Dec 2022 1:09 pm, robin wrote: Richard Babcock wrote: Greetings, I was just surfing the Wal-Mart site and found them hawking an OS called

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-24 Thread jmarcom
Wal-Mart was required to sell the system as LindowsOS to get around M$ complaints. It provides a basic Linux distro (don't recall what it is named) which will run a few popular Window$ apps. It wouldn't be a bad way to introduce the general public to Linux, except there is some sort of annual

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-24 Thread Robin Turner
jmarcom wrote: Wal-Mart was required to sell the system as LindowsOS to get around M$ complaints. It provides a basic Linux distro (don't recall what it is named) which will run a few popular Window$ apps. It wouldn't be a bad way to introduce the general public to Linux, except there is some

RE: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-24 Thread walt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Robin Turner Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 6:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Lindows What??! You have to pay a subscription fee to use Free Software? This is an insult to the people who

Re: [newbie] Lindows - Mandrake Editions

2002-12-24 Thread Russ
There is nothing wrong with being compensated for ones work. Like you I have downloaded the 9.0 version and I am about to give it another try. If I can get it going I have nothing against purchasing a boxed version. Could someone give a quick comparison on the differences between the download,

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-24 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 23 December 2002 08:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 23 Dec 2022 1:09 pm, robin wrote: Richard Babcock wrote: Greetings, I was just surfing the Wal-Mart site and found them hawking an OS called Lindows. Anyone know anything about this? It seems they are working hard to

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-24 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 18:03, Robin Turner wrote: What??! You have to pay a subscription fee to use Free Software? This is an insult to the people who wrote the stuff. It's not a subscription fee to use it. The subscription is for what they call a download warehouse that is set up to

[newbie] Lindows

2002-12-23 Thread Richard Babcock
Greetings, I was just surfing the Wal-Mart site and found them hawking an OS called Lindows. Anyone know anything about this? It seems they are working hard to convince neophytes that Windows is good but not that good. I just don't like the approach and am disappointed in Wal-Mart for taking it. R

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-23 Thread robin
Richard Babcock wrote: Greetings, I was just surfing the Wal-Mart site and found them hawking an OS called Lindows. Anyone know anything about this? It seems they are working hard to convince neophytes that Windows is good but not that good. I just don't like the approach and am disappointed in

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 23 Dec 2002 11:35 am, Richard Babcock wrote: Greetings, I was just surfing the Wal-Mart site and found them hawking an OS called Lindows. Anyone know anything about this? It seems they are working hard to convince neophytes that Windows is good but not that good. I just don't like

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 23 Dec 2022 1:09 pm, robin wrote: Richard Babcock wrote: Greetings, I was just surfing the Wal-Mart site and found them hawking an OS called Lindows. Anyone know anything about this? It seems they are working hard to convince neophytes that Windows is good but not that good. I

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-23 Thread Aaron Mehl
well I did some research and the bottom line is do you want a distro that lets you run windows apps?? Are you looking for a debian distro? Then these distros are trying more or less succesfully to fulfil a niche. A dummies linux for windows people. Lindow Xandros and all of them cost money. I

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-23 Thread Aaron Mehl
You are forgetting the w2k crowd that understand user permissions. Lindow seems a bit annoying to me at least Xandros is based on corel which with all its problem didn't try to be windows. Aaron --On Monday, December 23, 2002 01:10:52 PM + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 23

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 23 Dec 2002 3:27 pm, Aaron Mehl wrote: You are forgetting the w2k crowd that understand user permissions. So they do - and also they understand struggles to get hardware workingn :) Anne Lindow seems a bit annoying to me at least Xandros is based on corel which with all its problem

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-23 Thread Anthony Abby
Richard Babcock said: Greetings, I was just surfing the Wal-Mart site and found them hawking an OS called Lindows. Anyone know anything about this? It seems they are working hard to convince neophytes that Windows is good but not that good. I just don't like the approach and am disappointed

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-23 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Monday 23 December 2002 06:35 am, Richard wrote: I was just surfing the Wal-Mart site and found them hawking an OS called Lindows. Anyone know anything about this? Check out Bill Machrone's column in the January 2003 PC Magazine, Living with Lindows, p. 65.

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-23 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 22:35, Richard Babcock wrote: Greetings, I was just surfing the Wal-Mart site and found them hawking an OS called Lindows. Anyone know anything about this? It seems they are working hard to convince neophytes that Windows is good but not that good. I just don't like the

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-23 Thread christopher j bottaro
my expectations of wal-mart are so low, that nothing they do can disappoint me...;) -- christopher - Original Message - From: Richard Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie@Linux-Mandrake. Com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 5:35 AM Subject: [newbie] Lindows Greetings

RE: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-23 Thread Franki
December 2002 2:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Lindows my expectations of wal-mart are so low, that nothing they do can disappoint me...;) -- christopher - Original Message - From: Richard Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie@Linux-Mandrake. Com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: [newbie] Lindows (Windows + Linux)OT now

2002-06-11 Thread Franki
Sent: Tuesday, 11 June 2002 11:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Lindows (Windows + Linux)OT now On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 15:24:24 -0400 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 10 June 2002 09:00 am, you wrote: On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 03:54:56PM -0800, FARSHAD wrote: hello i

[newbie] Lindows (Windows + Linux)

2002-06-10 Thread FARSHAD
hello i have heard newly has been made a new operating system with name "Lindows" but i don't see thisOS in markets , if everybody have more information about this OS please tell me .. thanks.. bye

RE: [newbie] Lindows (Windows + Linux)

2002-06-10 Thread Franki
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FARSHADSent: Thursday, 5 December 2002 7:55 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Lindows (Windows + Linux) hello i have heard newly has been made a new operating system with name "Lindows" but i don't see thisOS in markets , if everybody

Re: [newbie] Lindows (Windows + Linux)

2002-06-10 Thread Mark Shaw
FARSHAD wrote: i have heard newly has been made a new operating system with name Lindows but i don't see this OS in markets , if everybody have more information about this OS please tell me .. Google is your friend. http://www.lindows.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Lindows (Windows + Linux)

2002-06-10 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 03:54:56PM -0800, FARSHAD wrote: hello i have heard newly has been made a new operating system with name Lindows but i don't see this OS in markets , if everybody have more information about this OS please tell me .. thanks.. bye There is a site called Google, which

Re: [newbie] Lindows (Windows + Linux)

2002-06-10 Thread robin
Derek Jennings wrote: Surprisingly enough you can find it at www.lindows.com Lindows has upset a lot of people in the linux world by 1/ Charging people for being a beta tester 2/ Not publishing the source code 3/ Making all users run as 'root' so defeating a large part of Linux

Re: [newbie] Lindows (Windows + Linux)OT now

2002-06-10 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 15:24:24 -0400 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 10 June 2002 09:00 am, you wrote: On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 03:54:56PM -0800, FARSHAD wrote: hello i have heard newly has been made a new operating system with name Lindows but i don't see this OS in markets , if