freespire.org— There was a "Freespire" some time back that wasn't "approved," but this is a REAL project sponsored directly by Linspire.
Apr 24, 2006View in Crawl 4
I just love comments that have no supporting evidence. What exactly sir sucks about linspire?This is a distro your grandmother could use. It comes with everything needed to playback about anything and has the largest out of the box extension compability of any distro out there.
"Most linux users would never stand for that."Then don't pay for it! But for novice users, we can't have them sit and find codec packages, install them and tweak file associations and stuff, it's not very intuitive, we need a legal way to playDVDs, Windows Media (Notice that Linspire got a license for WMV), QuickTime etc. etc. until the day OGG Vorbis and OGG Theora dominates the world, which will probably never happen.
I'm not sure if I'm even good enough to be called a novice, and I've used a good number of distros too (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Gentoo (not much gentoo, though), Puppy Linux, Helix, PCLinuxOS, SUSE, Mepis, Elive, and a few others). For me, I've tried them out for a few days just to see what was what. The only ones I've used with any regularity are Elive, Puppy, and Ubuntu.
These are NOT screenshots from the Freespire we announced this week. These are old screenshots from Andrew's SquiggleOS, which has nothing to do with what we announced today. Freespire will not look anything like these pictures!Kevin CarmonyCEO, Linspire, Inc.
I won't bother with the rest of the post, but I can say that LSongs is not a rebranded version of anything. It was written from scratch. (The author is a personal friend who used to work at Linspire, a sister company to the one I work for)
If you had to spend time setting up Linux, talk to the company that shipped it with something else. Linux can't make your computer maker install it by default.The rest is s**t the likes of which I haven't seen since at least high school and which isn't worth the waste of time required to respond to it, including such gems as only nerds have literacy skills and clairvoyant-like claims to know more than zero about my social life (which obviously highlights something that you personally feel insecure about).
drizzitApr 24, 2006
I just love comments that have no supporting evidence. What exactly sir sucks about linspire?This is a distro your grandmother could use. It comes with everything needed to playback about anything and has the largest out of the box extension compability of any distro out there.
tsuroerusuApr 25, 2006
"Most linux users would never stand for that."Then don't pay for it! But for novice users, we can't have them sit and find codec packages, install them and tweak file associations and stuff, it's not very intuitive, we need a legal way to playDVDs, Windows Media (Notice that Linspire got a license for WMV), QuickTime etc. etc. until the day OGG Vorbis and OGG Theora dominates the world, which will probably never happen.
truevoxApr 25, 2006
I'm not sure if I'm even good enough to be called a novice, and I've used a good number of distros too (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Gentoo (not much gentoo, though), Puppy Linux, Helix, PCLinuxOS, SUSE, Mepis, Elive, and a few others). For me, I've tried them out for a few days just to see what was what. The only ones I've used with any regularity are Elive, Puppy, and Ubuntu.
tuxuserApr 25, 2006
does linspire run live?
kevincarmonyApr 26, 2006
These are NOT screenshots from the Freespire we announced this week. These are old screenshots from Andrew's SquiggleOS, which has nothing to do with what we announced today. Freespire will not look anything like these pictures!Kevin CarmonyCEO, Linspire, Inc.
daekenApr 27, 2006
I won't bother with the rest of the post, but I can say that LSongs is not a rebranded version of anything. It was written from scratch. (The author is a personal friend who used to work at Linspire, a sister company to the one I work for)
Closed AccountApr 28, 2006
If you had to spend time setting up Linux, talk to the company that shipped it with something else. Linux can't make your computer maker install it by default.The rest is s**t the likes of which I haven't seen since at least high school and which isn't worth the waste of time required to respond to it, including such gems as only nerds have literacy skills and clairvoyant-like claims to know more than zero about my social life (which obviously highlights something that you personally feel insecure about).
codesterNov 10, 2006
These arguments about Linux are hilarious. Realize that you are arguing over computer software. How ridiculous is that?