Ignalum Linux - A Bridge to Windows? 365
linux slacker writes "Ignalum Linux 'is an intuitive graphical environment that works right out of the box and offers unrivaled compatibility with Microsoft Windows' or so says their website. The company is owned by four university students in Ontario, and one of their goals is to allow companies to incorporate Linux into their Windows environment, so users could still run Word, Excel and other popular Microsoft fare."
Slashdotted already (Score:5, Informative)
Current google cache link doesn't seem to work (Score:2, Informative)
http://66.102.9.104/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&o
Win4Lin (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Ignalum Linux 9 (Score:5, Informative)
Re:OS/2 (Score:2, Informative)
As for the name, I never understood why they called it OS/2 _for_ Windows. It wasn't as if it ran on top of Windows, as many people seemed to believe. It simply had a nifty way of letting the Windows kernel run inside OS/2 and display windows as if they were native PM windows.
Re:On another note (Score:4, Informative)
I click on it every day I see it.
I wish there were more ways of diverting funds from M$ to the community :)
Re:Winning the battle (Score:3, Informative)
It is? Have you used Outlook in a corporate environment? Do you know what not only does it support email, but also a calendar, contacts, journal, notes and tasks? That you can book appointments and have it automatically send the requests to them, check availability and add it to their diary, review and manage other people's diaries, act as a delegate for sending mail on other peoples behalf, assign tasks to individuals and track their progress and 101 other things which I don't have the time to type in here right now?
Because, and without sounding harsh, if you did know all that, you'd realise that getting a company to migrate from Outlook to Thunderbird is nigh on impossible given the different feature sets of the two products.
Re:Another one (Score:5, Informative)
> The development of a Multi-Platform 3D Graphics
> Rendering Engine and the creation of a hardware
> accelerated Ignalum Linux OS based on OpenGL
> allows applications/games developed for the engine
> to run using OpenGL or DirectX
or do i miss their point?
Ninnle Linux already does this! (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Questions to pose: (Score:4, Informative)
From the Google [66.102.9.104] cache of their (hopelessly slashdotted) site:
Looks like it's either a RedHat 9 or a Fedora hack...
Re:OS/2 (Score:4, Informative)
The only thing that I remember as being wrong with OS/2 was the installation, at a time when few people had a CD drive, I think there must have been nearly 50 floppies in the box. Admittedly a few of them were not needed every time, but...... Yet the installed system ran beautifully on a 486DX33 with 16MB RAM, and 340MB HDD (SCSI, which Windoze does not handle very well). WordPerfect ran perfectly, also lots of DOS programs, in fact the claim that it was a better DOS than DOS was certainly true.
Sad that it failed as a result of deceptive tactics by the Monopolist, not for any technical reason. And, of course, the Monopolist got a licence fee, rumoured to be about $20, for the Windoze content, for every copy sold.
This is classic! (Score:3, Informative)
Hahaha! Cheers mate! There was me slaving over a hot server, and your mainstream Linux input has made things so much more low-maintainence!
Good luck with the slashdotting
THEY ARE NOT DOWN -THEY BLOCKED /. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Unfortunately (Score:3, Informative)
Importing from Outlook (Score:3, Informative)
In Linux, you can use the program "readpst" provided by libpst, libpst.sourceforge.net [sourceforge.net]
In Windows, Mozilla Mail will import it (through the OLE interface), and Mozilla Mail's mailboxes are in standard MBOX format. Everyone in UNIX, and many many Windows programs, can import MBOX.
Re:Or... (Score:3, Informative)
Actually I've suffered through said migration, and I'm happy to say that the non-technical users were not happy with the change; they much preferred UNIX.