Hello robroy911,

Wednesday, August 10, 2005, 12:01:11 PM, you wrote:

r> It would be pretty cool of someone created and apt repositiry just for
r> Linspire.  I tried Linspire for a day or two in vmware, I hacked out
r> enought of their "crap" to get it to a semi functional linux desktop,
r> but no dedicated apt support kills any possibility of me using
r> Linspire.  I am a ubuntu fan, what was it you didn't like about
r> Ubuntu?

Isn't Linspire/Lindows a 'pay as you download' OS of some sort?

I tried a Lindows disk I picked up on eBay a while back, on one of my
junk boxes. It installed in full GUI mode, offering zero install
options, and it contained a very minimal set of apps.

Connecting to it application repository involved purchasing a paid
subscription, IIRC, and I was not interested in paying any money, to
see what it bought.

I do have a paid-for licence for my Red Hat Enterprise installation,
which is well worth the cost, for the convenience of not having to
keep up-to-date myself, on all the updates/patches, for the various
non-core apps I have running on the box.

Red Hat was the first distro I tried, and I have been using it for
five years (versions 7, 9 and now Enterprise 3), so I knew the distro
fairly well, before I ever actually paid for a license.

 
-wittig
website: http://www.robertwittig.com/
weblog: http://robertcwittig.blogspot.com/
.



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