On Feb 6, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Ben Klein shacklein@gmail.com wrote:
2009/2/7 Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com:
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Ben Klein shacklein@gmail.com wrote:
2009/2/7 EA Durbin ead1234@hotmail.com:
I just saw this linux distribution on distrowatch. They claim to be able to run all microsoft products. Interesting. http://www.imagicos.com/ http://www.imagicos.com/microsoft.html
No they don't. It says "almost every" on the home page and "most" on the "Microsoft" page.
Assuming they're talking about Wine, someone should tell them that they're wrong anyway. "quite a lot of entirely win32 applications", maybe. Almost certainly not "most".
Ooh, just spotted some interesting items on their "tested applications" list.
- DirectX
- DirectX 6
- DirectX 7
- DirectX 8
- DirectX 9
How about we just completely ignore these idiots?
Also: # Internet Explorer 5.0 and 5.5 # Internet Explorer 6.0
I've heard of some success with 6.0 (without crappy winedoors/ies4linux stuff), so I didn't comment.
# iPod Support in iTunes 4.0
Hmm, that seems unlikely
# Mac OS X # Mac OS X Audio Input Support
Well spotted, Austin!
Maybe they're talking about a VM, not Wine ... in which case, you'd have to get a copy of Windows, which defeats the purpose of being proud about their Windows app support.
From http://www.imagicos.com/why.html : "Compatibility iMagic OS can run many Microsoft Windows applications along with Linux applications, with help from the built in Crossover software."
Either they've got a deal with Crossover, or bundled it somehow?
I sent them an e-mail asking for the source, we'll see how that goes.
-- -Austin
Got a reply (pretty quick, must say): contact@imagicos.com to me 7:02 AM (6 hours ago) Glad to help. We recognize that people have put a lot of work into GNU software, and we honor that with GPL by having the Debian Binary Packages freely available for ease of installation. Attached to this email is a text file that details out this process. We cannot give out all source code, because iMagic OS includes proprietary software such as Crossover Pro & Games, Picasa, Skype, and others, as well as our own applications, including magicOnline and magicOffice, enhancements, configurations, and other desktop features. But we honor anything GNU, so feel free to download the DEBs from Ubuntu repos as we did per instructions in the attached text file.
Best Wishes!
Your Friends at iMagic OS
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 19:28:34 -0600, Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com wrote: - Hide quoted text -
I don't see anywhere where I can download the source to GPL/GPL'ed/BSD/etc. code used in your operating system. Can you send me the link please.
Thanks!
-Austin
Along with the attached text file...apparently they think pointing users to binary packages is enough to satisfy the GPL o.0.