imagicos

[Austin English]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Ben Klein <shacklein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/2/7 Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>:
>> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Ben Klein <shacklein at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2009/2/7 EA Durbin <ead1234 at 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.
>