<OT> Linux now avaible in stores

[Ken Moffat]

Net Llama! wrote:

>On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Joel Hammer wrote:
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>>On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 07:42:22AM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
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>>>Its fricking mozilla.  Its not like Lindows wrote their own or anything.
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>>Yes, of course it is mozilla, but, it is configured to work.
>>For example, no font problems, and plugins work as expected.
>>Joel
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>That's been the case with mozilla for nearly 2 years now.  Once again,
>Lindows has nothing to do with it, although they appear to be doing a fine
>job convincing you that they have.
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I'm not sure I totally agree with that, although I do feel Lindows is 
not for me, and running as root is to be avoided. (I can't believe they 
do that)

Lindows may run the scripts during install that download and install the 
various plugins (flash, realplay, java, whatever) that allow seamless 
access to multimedia. When mozilla is installed on many distros, you 
must do some grunt work to get it all working.

Libranet has a utility that will download and install several plugins to 
moz, but that's after the install. And I think there are intellectual 
property rights involved with packaging these plugins with a distro.

I have no experience with Lindows, so take it for a grain of salt.

-- 
Ken