On Monday 08 November 2004 18:41, Kiggundu Mukasa wrote: <snip> > "If you have hard time deciding which distribution to use, you could > select a software package that only aims at the desktop use, such as > Xandros which delivers a nice desktop and a broad set of products from > which to choose. One, for example, Linspire, which aims for full desktop > functionality, including telephony. Linspire's friendly interface makes > Windows users feel at home rapidly. Another option would be the free
Linspire is too similar to windows for my liking with a default login as Administrator with uid 0 et al - even a yearly subscription based paying for packages [I'm not talking about just commercial packages but even things like mplayer] - and that's after buying the Linspire cds.. I mean.. On the bright side, the yearly fee is rather low and entitles one for discounts on commercial unix software (e.g. cross over et al), so for a windows convert used to paying $100 for lots of s/w I guess it's an improvement. Given that they've used debian's apt tools to power their "click n run" installations, I guess windows converts are much more happier than having to learn rpm --aid -ivh et al. Also you could always just use apt natively with the debian repositories if you have the time to sort out differences btn the .debs and the linspire packages, but I did give Linspire a try and it didn't last 16hours on my laptop... really.. and windows still has a partition on the same laptop... (still have the ISO somewhere in case someone's interested). > software on a single CD called Knoppix... Now this one's a beauty. > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
