[ale] Linspire 5.0

[Bob Toxen]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 11:51:33PM -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> I picked up one of the el cheapo pc's with Linspire preinstalled from
> MicroCenter. It booted to a command prompt. X wouldn't run. I wiped it
> and put FC3 on.
That's very surprising.  Is it possible that it was returned after
someone screwed it up and not reinstalled?

I bought a Linspire PC from Frys for $100 and it worked just fine,
before I installed Slackware 10.1 over it to build a Firewall/VPN
for a client.

> If that is a first impression for a new Linux encounter...

Bob

> On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 22:52 -0400, 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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