Linspire Five-0 First Look

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 14, 2005 @12:59AM 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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This doesn't look like anything new by gforceamg · 2005-02-14 02:02 · 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"