> A very good point. Yes, I am interested in what Tracy has to say about > Linspire. I would also welcome comments by anyone else who has their own > views about the OS. That means positive as well as negative comments. > Linspire 5.0 has just been released and they are in a receptive mode to > hear what people have to say.
I went to the Desktop Summit a few months back...Mainly sponsored by Linspire and Novell was there. I was really impressed with the slick-ness and ease of use with Linspire. I wouldn't run it myself, being a die-hard Slackware fan, but for a new user, it installs in 10 minutes, asks like 2 questions and is "supposed" to autofind everything. I sent a pre-copy of V to our IT person at our Corporate office, he struggled with Suse and RedHat, Linspire was a breeze for him. I listened to Robertson speak, he seems genuinely wanting to give back to the OS community. But, as a business, he's in business to make money. I don't like the idea of the sotware warehouse, but it's a simple fix for experienced users to edit a file and use apt-get on the cli. The software warehouse though is a good idea (again) for a novice Linux user. Software installs w/no problems, directly from the website. It's $50 a year or something (not including their software they wrote), which is still by far cheaper than a Microsoft product. And it has the stability and security not found in MS products. Time will tell if Robertson sticks with his word on the community. > True, but isn't the point of being a Linux geek to show how the world > would be better without any Windows or Gates? Notice I didn't say Would it? Isn't there a place for all software? I dislike any MS OS, from 3.1 to 2003 but they do have their place (I have no idea where myself) but some people do prefer Windows, especially gamers. I run Slackware on all my home servers except for one, I just installed Fedora Core 3 (grudgingly), on my intranet/print server machine. Suse runs on my laptop, because I don't like to fuss with desktops, I just want them to run. The problem with Linspire is that it's minimum (for V) is 800Mhz. All of my "servers" (loosely called), is that they're old machines that my job just wanted to throw out. P100, PII233's, PII350s, and one AMD K6-2 400, my main server is a T-Bird 800 and my laptop is the screamer at a whopping 2.4G! =P So I have two machines it will run on, and since it doesn't come with Apache, Mysql on it, and has a high overhead it's out for a server, when I can install Slackware with no GUI and it runs ultra fast on that P 100. Linspire and Suse are great distros to give people a reason to try a "no fuss" Linux distro that is simple to install and easy to use. Granted this is all just my opinion. -Judy -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
