A lot of good things and bad things about it. Running as root is a big mistake. Click and Run is a joke, so I installed apt-get, which ended up generating a lot of dependecy issues for packages I wanted. Go figure. Yeah, that one works for me.
Kinda slow on the download right now 10k , must be some real hits on the site. It warns you about running as root and gives you an option not to. WTF is so hard to understand. I must say, I was impressed. I nearly fell out of my chair laughing. Those two distros are very user friendly for newbies coming from Windows while at the same time offering powerful tools.
Another thing is I have no respect for a web site designer that just copies images from other sites and claims as their own. Crap at least have some originality. A lot of the stuff on that site was taken from the icons in KDE and Gnome.
I agree, SUSE has had something like this, and it is a powerful system to move people to. The site does look a bit gay, but that olm package system is excellent. Linspire claims they offer a discount on retail apps available in the CNR Warehouse but when you take into account the fee to access CNR you really are losing money, not saving.
I feel sorry for people that are scammed by this marketing scheme. Actually SUSE does that by default. It should be an option in the KMenu editor. There are 3 options, the name of the application Konquerer , the type of application Web Browser or both Web Browser Konquerer. Only via this forum did I get that far. Order the CD, yeah right. Nothing about this whole process was easy, in fact I just gave-up. Want my CC, geezzzz what a crock. Sorry, if it seems pived, but I am.
Uhm, exactly what was so hard about downloading the free version? Linspire is built around the CNR service. They just trick you into thinking that getting a free copy is a big deal. But like I pointed out once you stop paying say bye bye to your apps.
They came from nowhere ie ZERO linux presence to having huge exposure in no time flat. I once got a peak at their marketing docs somewhere on one of their webservers and man are they organized. Nicely flashy graphics and Very professoinal looking. I could only imagine what would happen if you fired the entire Mandrake crew and put these people in their place. The company is run by greed.
They say their target audience is Windows users, so to get them to move, they set up the system to be as easy to use as they could.
Fair enough, but CNR is everywhere, and it will hose the machine if not removed properly etc etc. I am writing this from the new version of Linspire that I got yesterday. I have been using Lindows since Febuary, on and off, and I have mixed feelings on it, if I gave it to a newbie, they would have enough stuff to keep them using the pc for almost all the things they do in Windows. However, CNR is plastered all over the place, almost begging for the users credit card details on ever click. This is just plain not nice.
So like I said, mixed feelings, a good little slow perhaps version of linux for beginners, not much to offer o those people who had enjoyed the freedom of other versions of linux.
Just to understand, no apparent link was provided to goto any such service. It maybe no brainer for some people but if the a beginner or new user is to get a feel for this stuff, it at least should easy as pie to get it.
I like the premise of Linspire but gee whiz, they want to keep the ball all the time. Thanks for the info. I for one would never have gotten to actually download it without the help here. It only kept asking my credit card number… talk about user hostile! It is being left here purely for historical reasons. Linspire is still in business, however. You can visit them here. Webmaster Richard here.
Thought some of you might be interested in this recent experience of mine, so I'm calling it a "review" and publishing it here. One is the installer, and the other is a "live" version of Linspire meaning that it runs off the CD without having to be installed on the hard drive. Based on previous Linux installations and because admittedly I had done almost zero research on hardware compatibility with Linspire before building this particular box, except for checking the CPU and RAM requirements , I figured I'd be spending about an hour answering arcane questions about filesystems, partitions, and dependencies, and then waiting for files to be copied.
Then I figured I'd spend about another week searching for drivers for my mobo and all of its integrated devices, probably with a kernel rebuild thrown in just for good measure. After entering the requisite answers, the CD launched into a little Windows esque installation routine extolling the virtues of Linspire.
Hardware-wise, everything was detected properly and automatically configured, including the Internet connection. The only problem was with the Nvidia video card, which I think was a hardware problem streaking horizontal lines.
Hey, it was salvaged from a trashed computer, after all. So I shut down, pulled the Nvidia card, popped in an old ATi Rage card, and booted into the built-in "redetect" mode. The change was automatically detected and the new card configured. Now mind you, the Linspire OEM version doesn't come with very much software. There's a Web browser, a multi-protocol chat client, an email client, a few games, a few utilities, a few desktop applications, and so forth.
Pretty much what you would expect from an OEM operating system disk. A one-year membership is included in some of the retail versions of Linspire, but not the OEM version. The CNR Warehouse has almost two thousand apps available for immediate download, most of which are free to members. Most of it is open-source stuff which could be had for free anyway, but the difference is that Linspire has this stupid simple one-touch installer system called CNR "Click-N-Run".
CNR literally installs the programs with a click of a mouse. You click on this green icon of a guy running, and the program installs over the Internet. No compiling binaries. No extracting tarballs and gzips.
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