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LindowsOS 4.0 review
Reviews If you're using Windows on the same PC, LindowsOS 4.0 handily mounts FAT and NTFS hard drives automatically, so you can access your Windows-created files from within Lindows. LindowsOS 4.0 presents a clean, usable interface that's very recognisable...
[August 27, 2003, 8:23]
LindowsOS licences herald cheaper PCs
News On Monday Lindows.com, which claims its operating system will eventually be able to run popular Microsoft Windows applications, launched its Builder programme, which offers system builders technical support, testing tools, LindowsOS Certification...
[June 25, 2002, 13:46]
LindowsOS - What to expect
News After the upgrade process completes, the LindowsOS desktop will resemble the user's previous Windows desktop, including his or her wallpaper. But Michael Robertson, CEO of Lindows.com and founder and former CEO of MP3.com, is hoping the LindowsOS...
[April 4, 2002, 13:11]
LindowsOS 2.0 review
Reviews You'll know quickly whether or not you like Lindows -- this OS features the easiest installation we've ever seen on a desktop system. On our test PCs -- an HP 6540C with a 466MHz Celeron and 128MB of RAM and a newer HP 521n with a 1.4GHz Athlon and...
[November 5, 2002, 10:07]
Lindows to hit retail shelves
News LindowsOS, the Linux-based operating system designed to attract non-technical Windows desktop users, could soon be hitting retail shelves. One selling point may be LindowsOS' price tag: it retails for a suggested $129 (about £83), compared to about...
[December 16, 2002, 16:15]
Lindows ventures into Internet telephony
News LindowsOS 4.5 comes with Session Initiation Protocol, or SIP, technology that allows PC users to call up others using the same technology. Our partnerships with leaders in the technology business who are incorporating services and software into...
[December 17, 2003, 11:05]
Lindows to sell cut-price Linux via P2P
News The company said on Thursday that it is set to distribute its LindowsOS through P2P networks for $25 (£13.72), half the normal price, from its Web site. The BitTorrent system breaks a typical 500MB LindowsOS file into about 1,000 pieces to be...
[March 5, 2004, 11:40]
Wal-Mart trims prices of Linux-based PCs
News The price-conscious retailer is offering, via its Web site, a wider selection of new desktop PCs from Microtel Computer Systems, both with and without the Linux-based LindowsOS. The new PCs start at $299 (£210) and include a preinstalled copy of...
[June 18, 2002, 11:23]
Lindows keeps quiet as SCO battle rages
News The company, which makes a consumer-friendly version of Linux, said that it had "fielded some questions" about the implications for the LindowsOS in light of SCO's recent actions and that there were no issues between SCO and Lindows.
[May 29, 2003, 14:44]
Lindows faces a reality check
News A spokeswoman for Lindows.com confirmed that while some Windows applications will run on LindowsOS, this compatibility is no longer the company's top priority. However, where there is no Linux-based alternative to a Microsoft application, LindowsOS...
[August 21, 2002, 16:32]
Linux CD for consumers who can't commit
News The Linux OS CD is free for those who purchase or already own LindowsOS 4.0, the full-featured version of the company's software. The compressed version of LindowsOS 4.0 offers many of the standard features for the OS, including Microsoft...
[July 10, 2003, 15:12]
Lindows: Click-N-Run for Santa?
News LindowsOS is designed with the desktop user in mind and is the easiest to install and use operating system you'll ever experience. You can Install LindowsOS in under 10 minutes. Unlike traditional software programs from Microsoft and others...
[December 30, 2002, 9:56]
Lindows shares OS for free
News Robertson said Lindows.com would spend over $100,000 in bandwidth charges to deliver software used to create installation CDs for LindowsOS. At the same time, we'll be exposing millions of users on file-sharing networks to LindowsOS all at a...
[January 30, 2004, 7:30]
News Schmooze: WorldCom or WorldCon?
News Lindows.com also seems to be trying to puncture high hopes for its LindowsOS software, before they get out of hand. Nowadays, though, it's emphasising how easy it is to download and install LindowsOS applications, with nary a mention of Windows to...
[June 28, 2002, 14:31]
SCO sets up Linux-licence shop
Talkback Buy LindowsOS and get cheap exemption it makes better sense than paying SCOrn money and at least it goes toward Linux development and Say No To SCO.
[March 6, 2004, 10:49]
Ruling questions Windows trademark
News Microsoft on Monday lost the first stage in its battle to stop a San Diego software company from branding itself as Lindows.com and its Linux-based operating system -- which will run popular Windows-based programs -- as LindowsOS.
[March 18, 2002, 18:52]
We own Windows trademark - Microsoft
News LindowsOS, due to be released later this year, will run Windows applications, according to Lindows.com. The ruling was issued in response to Microsoft's attempts to stop a company that is building a GNU/Linux-based operating system using the terms...
[April 5, 2002, 12:22]
Lindows offers a software sampler
News Late last month the company released a "preview" version of LindowsOS to a few of the site's subscribers. LindowsOS is based on Linux and a technology called WINE, which is aimed at allowing Windows applications to run under Linux.
[February 5, 2002, 14:54]
Lindows PC launches in UK
News Although this had been the early promise of the start-up, a spokeswoman for Lindows.com recently confirmed that only a few Windows applications will run on LindowsOS, and this compatibility is no longer the company's top priority.
[October 8, 2002, 13:16]
Lindows reawakens network computer
News Lindows, which distributes LindowsOS -- a consumer-oriented version of the Linux operating system -- launched on Tuesday a $169 (£105) desktop machine. Lindows.com is attempting to resurrect the lifeless network computer.
[July 23, 2003, 8:15]
