[olug] hallOSSween

[Amy Mason]

About Lindows/Linspire. . . I think that I heard that they sold out to
Xandros, but I am suddenly not sure of that.  Maybe it was Freespire that
sold out. Either way. I wasn't all that impressed, at least with Freespire.
It refused to give me an internet connection on the LiveCD... and the
attempt to be newbie friendly just wasn't there for that reason.

Amy

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > 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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