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The founder of MP3.com, Michael Robertson, has a solution for the lack of desktop applications for the Linux OS: Make Windows software run on Linux, by using parts of Wine, software letting Windows programs run on Unix. [Wired News]

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]

Former MP3.com CEO has a new challenge: wresting control of OS market from Microsoft. His new firm, Lindows.com, has something no OS has done well yet. For a fee, users download LindowsOS, which runs Microsoft or Linux programs on PCs. [Wired News]

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]

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]

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]

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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]

LindowsOS is a Linux Operating System aimed at the Desktop