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has anyone heard of/had experience with Lindows/Linspire 4.5?
I am about to purchase a $200 comp from frys and i was wondering if anyone has had experience with that os.
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- 02-13-2005 #1Just Joined!
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comments re: Lindows/Linspire 4.5
has anyone heard of/had experience with Lindows/Linspire 4.5?
I am about to purchase a $200 comp from frys and i was wondering if anyone has had experience with that os.
good or bad experience?
- 02-13-2005 #2Linux Engineer
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Well it runs any windows program as well as linux programs
Thats what they said when it first came out load of balls it was 
- 02-13-2005 #3Linux Newbie
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Linspire is a ****** distro which embarrases linux.
If you want a distro that can run Windows programs you can try Xandros 3 Deluxe Edition or Linare Linux.
- 02-13-2005 #4Just Joined!
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so this is really strange, win programs use mfc or win32 api & linux uses a well defined api, so how can it be possible to run both.
can u say a little more about why it sucks?
- 02-13-2005 #5Just Joined!
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not sure how the kernel can support both win32 & *nix system calls?
they are very different indeed. also, the whole architecture of windows is very different from linux. i am quite puzzeled on how this os can succeed.
- 02-13-2005 #6Linux Newbie
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they use an emulator that can emulate the windows environment
- 02-13-2005 #7Linux Newbie
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Linspire uses Wine/CrossOver Office to run Windows apps just like any other distro.
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