many thanks to peter for the translation below.
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Subject: Re: [rl-all] anyone speak swedish?
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 20:22:04 +0100
From: Peter Bj�rklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Joseph Cheek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You know I speak Swedish, Joseph!
Here is a rough translation:
Redmond Linux nothing for Microsoft
A former Microsoft-employee will together with a bunch of developers
develop a new linuxversion. The man is not scared of his former
employer and calls the system Redmond Linux.
Despite the name Redmond Linux, it has nothing to do with Microsoft,
except that the man behind it all, Joseph Cheek, has worked for them.
He has worked with the Windows 98 and Unix-services for Windows NT and
says he got a lot of experience on how to build an operating system.
The big thing about RedmondLinux is that the GUI should be centered
around what the user wants to do, rather than the programs themself.
For example, there should be a menu: "I want to play a game".
More than that; the installation and configuration should be so simple
that anyone can use Linux.
Joseph Cheek says to the brittish netpaper The Register, that he is
not afraid that Microsoft will sue him for using the name Redmond.
- Microsoft does not use the name Redmond, he says.
Finished this autumn
Perhaps Microsoft will react on the logotype. It has the
characteristic Linux penguin with a box with yellow, green and red
lines around and resembles the logotype for a more wellknown
operatingsystem.
Redmond Linux is now under development and will be available in the
end of the month. The 11th of november it should be available for
download.
External links
The one who dares can download an early and probably buggy version of
Redmond Linux on
http://www.redmondlinux.org
