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Lindows Click-N-Run (2002)

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Re: Lindows Click-N-Run (2002)

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Post by Szpadel »

oh, i remember lindows, it supposed to be Linux distribution that looked and felt like windows, and even come with wine preinstalled. in theory it was good windows replacement for less technical people

Re: Lindows Click-N-Run (2002)

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Post by throwaway1777 »

Szpadel wrote: post #2

oh, i remember lindows, it supposed to be Linux distribution that looked and felt like windows, and even come with wine preinstalled. in theory it was good windows replacement for less technical people

In reality it was only used by very technical people who didn’t want to pay for windows or support Microsoft

Re: Lindows Click-N-Run (2002)

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Post by tinus_hn »

tux wrote: post #3

ReactOS [1] has similar interface to LindowsOS. But ReactOS is still in active development. Also LindowsOS was sued by Microsoft [2] back in 2001. Maybe this is why its gone now. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Lindows.com... .

One is a reimplementation of the Windows operating system, the other is a Linux distribution that looks and is named kind of like Windows.

Actually the page you linked states what happened to LindowsOS, they won a settlement, got $20 million and changed names.

Re: Lindows Click-N-Run (2002)

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Post by tux »

tinus_hn wrote: post #5
tux wrote: post #3

ReactOS [1] has similar interface to LindowsOS. But ReactOS is still in active development. Also LindowsOS was sued by Microsoft [2] back in 2001. Maybe this is why its gone now. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Lindows.com... .

One is a reimplementation of the Windows operating system, the other is a Linux distribution that looks and is named kind of like Windows. Actually the page you linked states what happened to LindowsOS, they won a settlement, got $20 million and changed names.

Your right :) Thanks for pointing this out.

Re: Lindows Click-N-Run (2002)

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Post by hnlmorg »

tinus_hn wrote: post #5
tux wrote: post #3

ReactOS [1] has similar interface to LindowsOS. But ReactOS is still in active development. Also LindowsOS was sued by Microsoft [2] back in 2001. Maybe this is why its gone now. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Lindows.com... .

One is a reimplementation of the Windows operating system, the other is a Linux distribution that looks and is named kind of like Windows. Actually the page you linked states what happened to LindowsOS, they won a settlement, got $20 million and changed names.

Interestingly Linspire are still releasing. In fact their latest was just a few days ago! However you could be forgiven for thinking their homepage was a scam given it's dated look: https://www.linspirelinux.com/

Re: Lindows Click-N-Run (2002)

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Post by pxc »

throwaway1777 wrote: post #4
Szpadel wrote: post #2

oh, i remember lindows, it supposed to be Linux distribution that looked and felt like windows, and even come with wine preinstalled. in theory it was good windows replacement for less technical people

In reality it was only used by very technical people who didn’t want to pay for windows or support Microsoft

It was the first Linux distro I ever used, back when I was a kid and had never used a Unix command line before. :)

Eventually my dad replaced it with a similar distro called Xandros, and that got me hooked on Amarok 1.3, which Xandros had rebranded on their distro. Amarok was then a killer app for me, and got me into Linux as a hobby when I was a teenager.

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