The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #53442 Message #822654
Posted By: Willie-O
10-Nov-02 - 10:39 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Bill Gates is not useful!
Subject: RE: Tech: Bill Gates is not useful!
An unlikely, sort of, competitor to MS hegemony.
WalMart of all places is selling PC's for $199 (Monitor not included, natch, among other things) which run on this new Lindows OS. That's right, Linux architecture with a Windows-type interface. Needless to say MS is not happy with this--hey, did someone say "Look and feel" lawsuit?
Lindows is on my list of "something to look into". The big question is, does Lindows really run Windows software effectively?
It's always irritated me that you buy a PC but have to pay more for the software you need to do anything at all with it. Like a car without an engine.