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• Lindows CEO Attacks Intel's Centrino Linux Lockout

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/03/20/lindows_ceo_attacks_intels_centrino/
  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]

• Lindows CEO Funds Xbox Hacking Contest

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1040-978957.html
  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]

• Lindows Heads for Store Shelves

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1040-978065.html
  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]

• Lindows.com Nabs New Customer in Japan

  http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/2213911
  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]

• Linux Finds Fans at Wal-Mart

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1040-943955.html
  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]

• Lraiser

  http://www.lraiser.com/
  A network to get people to try Linspire.

• Maker of Lindows Laughs at Face of Danger (and Microsoft)

  http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/maney/2003-02-25-maney_x.htm
  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]

• Seagate Pops Lindows onto Hard Drives at No Charge

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/24/seagate_pops_lindows_onto_hard/
  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]

• Start-up Creating Linux-Windows Combo

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-274834.html
  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]

• The Lindows Conundrum

  http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,754,00.asp
  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]

 

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