[ale] Linspire experience and problems

[pras at cycloeastern.com]

Confession- I am a RPM/TAR ball user. I don't know dpkg or apt-get.

I friend of mine bought a $100 machine from Microcenter with Linspire on it and 
is thrilled with the Linux tools.

He could not get his webcam working and wanted me to look at it. I tried to see if
it had xawtv, v4l or digicam. It had none of the above. So I tried to see if I could 
install it.

RPM tool was present, but there was no rpm database. I also found dpkg and apt-get. There
was NO gui/text base software install tool. Everything seems be a membership based 
download service. Even the free stuff.

I thought, what the heck and downloaded digicam tar.gz, only to notice that this did not have a 
C compiler !

Now I am convincing my friend to go to Mandrake.

Does anyone have any experience with Linspire ?

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Prasanna Subash            | What!?  Me worry?   -- Alfred E. Newman 
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