[ale] Linspire 5.0

[Geoffrey]

Mark Wright wrote:
> 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.

I am a silver member of the Mandriva club (I hate the new name..).  The 
online update is quite nice.  It is second to Suse though.  Mandriva's 
software management system has got Red Hat beat easily though.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey