[olug] hallOSSween

Carl Lundstedt clundst at unlserve.unl.edu
Tue Sep 23 20:57:11 UTC 2008


Why not give out the live game cd?

http://live.linux-gamers.net/?s=home

Carl Lundstedt
UNL

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 21:53 -0500, Amy Mason wrote:
> 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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