[ale] Linspire and other commercial distros

[Barry Hawkins]

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On Sep 29, 2004, at 11:16 PM, Mlfveer at cs.com wrote:

> Van Loggins <vanloggins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I bought a lifetime membership for Linspire a while back when they had
>> their choicepc.com website and was trying to get money up to assist
>> with the fight against microsoft's lawsuits against them in foreign
>> countries.
>>
[...]
>
> Thank you for your experiences. What amazes me more than anything is 
> the whole issue of choice. Most consumers, and by consumers I mean 
> average pc users, have no idea an alternative to Windows exists. You'd 
> think they'd be at least aware of Apple, but my experience is that it 
> is "Windows or nothing." Linux makes no sense to them.
>
> The good news is that Xandros, Linspire and Lycoris (and many others) 
> are making it easier and easier to suggest a REAL alternative to 
> Windoze.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mitch
[...]
>
I have also found the free version of SuSe that you can pull down via 
FTP and burn to a CD is quite good.  I installed it onto an emulated 
386 in VirtualPC on my Mac and had quite pleasant results (although I 
did have to cut back on the quality of the graphics, but that is an 
emulator problem, not the distro.)

Regards,

Barry C. Hawkins
All Things Computed
site: www.alltc.com
weblog: www.yepthatsme.com


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