[olug] hallOSSween

Will Langford unfies at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 14:29:39 UTC 2008


>
> Hmm, I didn't know that.  Back in the day there was GNUWin but I think
> that died too.  What is it about FOSS distros for Windows, that they
> don't seem to last long?
>

My guess would be rather lacking compatibility causing lack of broad
interest causing project death.

Either that or complexity to configure / run / diagnose problems.

Ever since it was released, I've been very curious about
lindows/lindash/linspire/whatever-its-called-now.

Then again, I do have a commercial version of Win4Lin that I've never tried
out, either :).

-Will



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