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Lindows: Beyond Windows, Before Linux | |
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| Time: 15:31 EST/20:31 GMT | News Source: InformationWeek | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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For one thing, Lindows' initial emphasis on Windows compatibility alienated large portions of the Linux community who knew what was going on behind the scenes. You see, Lindows gets its Windows compatibility through the same Wine subsystem that is freely available for virtually all Linux and Unix implementations. When Wine is installed on any *nix platform, it gives that system the ability to run some native Windows applications that normally run only on the Windows operating system. | ||
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