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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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| #1 By 20 (24.243.41.64) at 12/2/2002 3:42:52 PM |
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ability to run some native Windows applications
SOME being the operative word here as we've found out from the raging success of Lindows. |
| #2 By 6859 (204.71.100.217) at 12/2/2002 4:10:40 PM |
| Still doesn't run Outlook 2000 in CW mode properly. |
| #3 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 12/2/2002 5:36:01 PM |
| Since Lindows == Linux && Linux < Windows, I think this title is rather faulty. |
| #4 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 12/2/2002 6:11:39 PM |
| I think blue screens are a feature of legacy Windows versions. Windows XP doesn't support them. |
| #5 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 12/2/2002 6:18:53 PM |
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bluej - Why don't you find out for yourself...
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/bluescreensaver.shtml |
| #6 By 7797 (63.76.44.252) at 12/2/2002 6:38:06 PM |
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BoBSmith:
You obviously dont use Windows XP enough if you dont get BSODs on it. Implying that WinXP doesnt get BSODs shows once again that you truly are a moron. |
| #7 By 3653 (63.162.177.140) at 12/2/2002 6:40:19 PM |
| i've been using XP for almost 9 months without a single BSOD. |
| #8 By 2332 (65.221.182.3) at 12/2/2002 6:47:32 PM |
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#8 - The only bluescreen I've ever had on Windows XP was from faulty ram during an install.
Other than that, I've been using XP since the day after it came out, and I haven't had a SINGLE freeze or bluescreen. If it wasn't for evil patches that make you reboot, my uptime would have been 100%. My Win2k Server has also never had a bluescreen, and it's been running for about 2 years now... non-stop, other that for moving and for patches. (It gets a LOT of use, too.) My old Win2k desktop machine had 2 bluescreens over the two years I was using it... one for bad ram (arrrg), and one because my hard drive was dying. (In other words, both hardware related.) The last software related bluescreen I had was way back with Win 98. So, saying "that WinXP doesnt get BSODs" is actually the typical user experience (as far as I know). Just because YOU have had bluescreens (crappy hardware, perhaps?) doesn't mean other people frequently have them too. |
| #9 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 12/2/2002 7:40:42 PM |
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tgnb, I've been running RTM of Windows XP since mid September of 2001 as soon as it was posted to MSDN Subscriber Downloads. I use it on a desktop and a laptop. My laptop only bluescreened when my harddrive failed. Since the new harddrive, I've not had a problem. The desktop has never bluescreened. As with RMD, the only bluescreen I've had with Windows XP was hardware related.
So, my brash response to your brash attack is this: stfu, since you don't have a clue! |
| #10 By 1989 (24.159.230.34) at 12/2/2002 8:21:25 PM |
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tgnb, how much do you have to use it before it is enough?
Anyway, the only bsod I have seen on Win2k or Winxp since Win2k beta 3 is from Easy CD creator 3.5/directcd (once!) That was fixed with Nero. I've had Red Hat 7 freeze more times than that! If you put winxp on a high quality system with very well known components and time tested drivers, you should never see a bsod! |
| #11 By 135 (208.50.206.187) at 12/2/2002 11:29:35 PM |
| I started having blue screens caused by my WinTV card drivers. Some sort of conflict, which bites. It started happening after I updated to newer nvidia drivers. :( |
| #12 By 7797 (63.76.44.252) at 12/3/2002 10:08:27 AM |
| This comment has been removed due to a violation of the Active Network Terms of Use. |
| #13 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 12/3/2002 2:41:26 PM |
| Perhaps I should have used <SATIRE> tags, so that he would have understood what I was saying. |
| #14 By 20 (24.243.41.64) at 12/3/2002 2:48:56 PM |
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I've only ever seen hardware or driver-related BSODs in Windows XP.
When I first got XP and nVidia didn't have stable drivers out for it (only beta), I got BSODs all the time (the dreaded IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL). Once nVidia released stable, WHQL drivers, everything has been fine, no BSODs. |
| #15 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 12/3/2002 9:09:08 PM |
| Well my point was this, Windows XP blue screens are very rare. The only blue screens I'm aware of with Windows XP were the result of hardware failure. Hardware failure is not something that the operating system is responsible for overcoming (at least not in non fault tolerant desktop system). From a common user's perspective (since hardware failure isn't too common), blue screens don't happen in Windows XP. Sry, I should have been more clear in my first post. |
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