There was a hack to install a BASH Shell on it because it didn't come with a Linux Shell. Only problem was their GUI updater would find a problem with newer libraries and hang and show a picture of a nerd hanging by his underwear.
Lindows Click-N-Run (2002)
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Re: Lindows Click-N-Run (2002)
#32It seems there is a distro that runs Wine by default, don’t remember which. (I’m sure it’s not called Winedows .)
There was Xandros Linux, which came with the Wine-based CrossOver Office to run Windows applications.
Xandros was based on Corel Linux. They acquired Corel's team and Corel Linux sources when Corel gave up on Linux. Interesting tidbit, although WordPerfect 8 was a native Linux application, Corel used their own Wine fork for porting WordPerfect Office.
Back then, the Linux distribution landscape was so much more exciting than now, when everything is just another fork of Debian/Ubuntu/Arch. Of course, it had downsides to -- distributions were far less compatible.
Re: Lindows Click-N-Run (2002)
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Amarok was awesome! I really liked the "moodbar" addon that converted each audio track into a colorful 1D strip, underneath the progress indicator. Ah, looks like it's a project in its own right, but the Wikipedia page has an Amarok screenshot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodbar
Amarok really lost me with the 2.0 redesign. I switched to Clementine instead, which carries on the Amarok 1.x design.
Lately development on Clementine has been lagging a bit, so I'm using a fork called Strawberry.
The Amarok 1.x interface is closely tied with Quod Libet as my favorite audio library/player, but QL is significantly less user-friendly, thanks to its extensive flexibility.
Re: Lindows Click-N-Run (2002)
#35oh, 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
I remember getting a Lindows installation cd with a computer magazine, a linux magazine I think.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Oh wow, I loved Xandros. Ran it on my PCs for a good period before the next new thing appeared. Is it dead?
Re: Lindows Click-N-Run (2002)
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Oh wow, I loved Xandros. Ran it on my PCs for a good period before the next new thing appeared. Is it dead?
Xandros has changed hands as several times over the years, but it looks like it's still around! It's based on Ubuntu instead of directly on Debian these days
Re: Lindows Click-N-Run (2002)
#38Is this link surfacing because Apple claims the App Store is unique and Lindows pre-dates it?
Lindows didn't create any of the tech behind their "app store". That's based on Debian's "apt" which is from the late 90s. What's more, SuSE had a GUI package manager, YaST[1]. before any Debian re-spin did. But if you want to talk about the first command line package manager, well FreeBSD nips Linux to the post with it's 'ports' directory[2] back in the early 90s.
Weirdly though, all of this is pre-dated with something that is much more akin to a modern day app store. Unsurprisingly, it was released for NeXT -- though made by a third party called Paget Press, Inc. Their "Electronic AppWrapper"[3] had everything a modern day app store does:
+ GUI (which itself wasn't all that common in 1991),
+ commercial titles which the app store maintainers too a percentage of
+ a common gateway for download the programs
I don't know what happened to Paget Press but I wouldn't be surprised if Steve Jobs bought them.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APT_(software)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaST
Re: Lindows Click-N-Run (2002)
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Ironically (or maybe not?) Xandros was the company that bought Lindows/Linspire back in 2007(ish).