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Linspire Five-0 First Look

Posted by Hemos on from the making-it-eas(ier)-to-use dept.

Eugenia writes "OSNews posted an exclusive first look for the upcoming Linspire 5.0: 'Linspire Five-0 is definitely a good base from which to build. The lack of well rounded applications when compared to other OSes in its class leave me wanting more, however, a slick look, some powerful Linspire specific apps, and a non-crippled undercarriage remain appealing' says the author." The bigger question will be how it stacks up against other commericial offerings in the long run. (ITMJ is also owned by OSTG).

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  1. Click and Run by PROTEIN_MAN · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Linspire uses a click and run webpage to install apps, apt-get install seems a hell of alot faster and easier!

  2. This doesn't look like anything new by gforceamg · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    I honestly don't see why so many people are hailing Linspire as a revolutionairy OS. It looks like a crazy amalgation of apps from Windows and Mac OS X. None of the stuff they are including in this release is new, they are simply stealing the new ideas from Apple and MS (e.g. showing common tasks in explorer windows, LPhoto similarities with iPhoto). Oh well, I guess it is as Picasso put it:
    "Good artists copy, great artists steal"
  3. Why we must fight Linspire... by joestar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Can we please stop the "run as root" myth about Linspire."

    It's not a myth, it's been the default behaviour of Lindows since the begining and haven't changed.

    Lindows/Linspire is exactly what I wouldn't have wished to Linux for several reasons:
    1) Linspire doesn't bring anything new to Linux, appart this pseudo-commercial hyper around it. Mandrakelinux, Fedora, SuSE, & others do really good desktop products with similar (or better) features and online services (including many ones which are free).
    2) Linspire is a closed product. They think they can challenge Windows & Microsoft by adopting similar strategies, by trying to close open-source code, which is ridiculous and has no future.
    3) Linspire tries to imitate the worse of Windows : open door to viruses (default root account), adoption of closed formats instead of open and public formats.
    4) Linspire is a project started by a guy (Michael Robertson) which can lose much money for an OS dream with absolutely no open-source vision (and no technological vision at all).

    As a result, Linspire is in my opinion a closed-world project that we must fight, because it's what Linux should never become.