[ale] Linspire 5.0

[Mark Wright]

I have played with Linspire on and off since 3.0.  I really like 5.0  
but I don't use it.  I do recommend it occasionally for parents or  
kids.  My mom is on Ubuntu though.

The click and run warehouse is really good.  Honestly though I think  
the only kind of geek Linspire would appeal to are the types of  
people we would refer to as script kiddies.

I was truly amazed a few years ago when, with the literal one click,  
I had a quick time movie playing through a automatically downloaded,  
installed, configured and started Mplayer.

I had spent months trying to get Mandrake 9.2 and Mozilla configured  
with Mplayer to do  anything.  It had really kicked my arse.

For the same $ you can join the Mandriva club use the excellent 2005  
version and use their exclusive and new (I have not tried it) online  
update service.


On May 26, 2005, at 10:52 PM, Christopher Fowler wrote:

> I'm thinking of going away with FC2 on my laptop and getting Linspire
> 5.0 since it is supposed to be so well integrated. And it supports
> 802.11g.  I consider myself a Linux pro but would like something that
> just runs on my laptop.  Is this a stupid idea?
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