April 05, 2004
(B)Advocacy
I really wish people would get their facts right before they start trying to use them to convince people to switch.
"There is a company called Lindows, which is a merge of Linux and Windows. It allows you to run any application that you would run on Windows, on your Linux computer with the exact same features, the exact same application, and look and feel. It works seamlessly," Faulkner says.
Too good to be true?
Well, yes, it is too good to be true. For a start, Lindows is not a merge of Linux and Windows, it is Linux with a copy of WINE, and WINE is a tool to sit between Linux and a Windows application and translate. To be a merge of Windows and Linux, Lindows would have to had access to a copy of the Windows source code, and welcome to a whole new world of being squashed in legal fights.
As for any application, no no no. It runs some applications, but certainly not all of them, WINE is far from perfect.
I don't know why MedZilla think Faulkner is an expert on Desktop Linux, his company does web hosting and data centre infrastructure, which shouts server to me.
I hope that the damage done isn't too great, but I can just see some people converting to Lindows on the strength of this recomendation, only to find that some application their business depends on doesn't work and never touching Linux again.
Posted at April 5, 2004 12:47 PM (TrackBack)