Alternative to Windows

[ByteBack]

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[snowmonkey]

Just by the looks of it.....Isn't that another flavor of Linddows?

cheers

[ByteBack]

Microsoft payed them $20 M to change their name. They use to be Lindows.

[lordSauron]

Linux is secure, free, and even emulates windows via the <tt>wine</tt> windows emulator.

[ilumnis]

I think M$ first put them on trial and then made an agreement
with Lindows.. what a lame way to achieve something...

[s7p9a2m4]

The only other alternative is mackintosh, apple computers.

[Jammin19840]

I really hope you are being sarcastic!!

Linspire is wank.

Any distro that makes you pay needs a slap (ok paying for live tech suport is ok (eg, RedHat SuSe pro etc) and besides that linspire is just shite.

Get a good meta-distro like Debian or Gentoo, or try Slackware...mmmm Slackware....

[Faron]

The only other alternative is mackintosh, apple computers.

No, makitosh computers are not the only alternatives. Other Unix's are free and have the same feel as windows plus good networking and programming tools. Here's a list
Sun's Solaris
Tru64
Aix
Sco
BSD
Linux:
Suse Linux, Red Hat Linux, Fedora Core, Mandrake, Lycorise, Debian, Slakware, White Box, Mepis, Xandros and much more.

[Faron]

Originally Posted by lordSauron

Linux is secure, free, and even emulates windows via the <tt>wine</tt> windows emulator.

Linux is not knew is been around for a long time.

[Taft]

Originally Posted by Jammin19840

I really hope you are being sarcastic!!

Linspire is wank.

Any distro that makes you pay needs a slap (ok paying for live tech suport is ok (eg, RedHat SuSe pro etc) and besides that linspire is just shite.

Get a good meta-distro like Debian or Gentoo, or try Slackware...mmmm Slackware....

I'm a Linux user, but please lose the elitist attitude. This is a Windows users forum, and you're recommending the most beginner-unfriendly distros of them all. Linspire is meant to be familiar to Windows users and would be a good starting point (Fedora or Ubuntu would also be excellent as well as free)

[D0M1N8R]

Originally Posted by Jammin19840

I really hope you are being sarcastic!!

Linspire is wank.

Any distro that makes you pay needs a slap (ok paying for live tech suport is ok (eg, RedHat SuSe pro etc) and besides that linspire is just shite.

Get a good meta-distro like Debian or Gentoo, or try Slackware...mmmm Slackware....

Thats exactly the type of attitude that will insure that linux never goes mainstream.
Linspire is a great distro IMHO. It still needs some polishing up but its a very considerable alternative and my primary OS of choice.
I also from time to time use other distro's but I just keep coming back. Guess it just my distro and you obviously would disagree and thats fine.

[D0M1N8R]

Wow just realized how old them post are.. I guess this section of the forum isnt used much or these post would have been bumped down a few pages.

[harry12]

Originally Posted by Taft

I'm a Linux user, but please lose the elitist attitude. This is a Windows users forum, and you're recommending the most beginner-unfriendly distros of them all. Linspire is meant to be familiar to Windows users and would be a good starting point (Fedora or Ubuntu would also be excellent as well as free)

True, but I suspect it is really a PC-inspired Forum - and that just happens to be WIndows because that's history.
/
Linux has a long way to go principally IMHO because it's not got a knuckle-brained boss shouting orders through to the dev boys ( I paint an improbably picture of a small software house).
/Most folk, that includes me, want to use a PC for a simple enough purpose and pouring over the entrails of a dead sea-monster isn't one of them. I expect the software to recognise my equipment and sort itself out so eveything just goes. If I stick to main-stream products that are say a year or two old the necessary drivers should be in place. I accept that something that's cutting-edge or from a special manufacturer may have furhe work needed. But if I designed a wall-printer (one that climbs about/over the wall spotting ink the consistancy of whitewash ), unless I want to create a lot of software I'd ensure it had a pretty common interface - like an Epson Graphical input - or else I'd have to supply the drivers for Win98SE and above (and that should include Linux, why not?)
/
Lindows, (now called something else, but we'll never forget the original name as it seems so sensible)... is a costly version of Linux, IMHO - but I suspect the hope is that, because it works so well. folk will welcome using it so they keep paying........proof needed? - Just see if it survives - for me it seems neither one thing nor't'other so I'm with Ubuntu (Linux) which is practically free and comes with some good stuff - at least.... if I had the time to lose my Windows98SE - because this works well enough and it prints out what work I do - so why change?
Well Windows 98SE is soon to disapear becasue new software writers don't support it - so new fancy programs need something better (more costly!).. To avoid this, I might as well migrate to Linux - although I have to say I'm impressed with some of their applications there is considerable work needed to get it mainstream - IMHO it just isn't fit to work "out of the box" - but that doesn't mean it is rubbish, nor does it mean it's flawed - it is the mind-set of the people distributing Linux that needs to change - they have been faffing about 10 years or more (it seems) and.... even now it is like buying a car and finding there is a small lathe in the boot (US-trunk), so you can make some adaptors ..... so the seats fit properly - really! and if you look further there is a set of pipe-benders, shoved up the exhaust - essential kit, if you need to add a fuel filter, change the aircon etc. etc.
RegardsH

[xequence]

The only other alternative is mackintosh, apple computers.

BSD and Solaris rock your socks.