[ale] Linspire 5.0

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 11:25 -0400, Bob Toxen wrote:
> 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?

If so it would have been a major stocking fubar at MicroCenter as this
was a brand new box.

Still, after installing FC3, X was cranky until I upgraded it to the
2.6.11 kernel. Love those cheap all-in-one motherboards...
> 
> 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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