Linspire

Subcategories 2

• KDE
• Lawsuits

Sites 10

• Maker of Lindows Laughs at Face of Danger (and Microsoft) Robertson started a firm competing against Microsoft Windows in the PC OS market, named his cheap OS and firm Lindows (one letter different), and to ensure Microsoft hates him, has a $200,000 reward for anyone hacking Xbox. [USA Today]
• Lindows.com Nabs New Customer in Japan The desktop Linux advocate boasts a new partnership in Japan with Japanese ISP EDGE to sell LindowsOS in Japan for home, work, education uses; and assures customers Lindows has nothing to fear from SCO. [InternetNews]
• Lraiser A network to get people to try Linspire.
• Lindows CEO Attacks Intel's Centrino Linux Lockout Intel is having major internal struggle over desktop Linux, and pro-Microsoft marketing droids are winning, according to Lindows.com CEO Michael Robertson. Lists several types of evidence. [The Register]
• Seagate Pops Lindows onto Hard Drives at No Charge Will lend open source hand to Whitebox PC makers by distributing LindowsOS on one drive model at no cost. Any US computer maker can buy 40GB Barracuda 7200.7 pre-loaded with LindowsHD or without at same cost, should save about $100 per box. [The Register]
• Lindows Heads for Store Shelves San Diego start-up dedicated to making Linux easy to use for average PC users releases first retail version of its software Lindows 3.0, and has enlisted retail partners to sell it. [CNET News.com]
• Linux Finds Fans at Wal-Mart Firm expands experiment selling low-cost PCs running Linux OS. Web site now has lines of Microtel PCs with installed Lindows, Mandrake. May be milestone for Linux public acceptance. Sales are above expectations. [CNET News.com]
• Start-up Creating Linux-Windows Combo Lindows.com, a 20-person San Diego company led by former MP3.com Chief Executive Michael Robertson, plans to sell preview version of Linux to run popular Windows programs. Version 1.0 is due early 2002. [CNET News.com]
• Lindows CEO Funds Xbox Hacking Contest Michael Robertson, Lindows CEO, reveals himself as formerly anonymous donor of $200,000 prize money in contest to translate Linux OS to Microsoft's Xbox video game console. [CNET News.com]
• The Lindows Conundrum Lindows is a cheap OS that runs Linux and Windows code, with a name that mixes both, and which looks like Windows. Why isn't anyone taking it seriously? [ZDNet PC Magazine]