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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. Just had to say it.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linspire Five-0?

    Boot 'em, Danno.

  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  3. DVD Playback by Smiffa2001 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "How can this be that a commercial OS doesn't include DVD playback?"

    Erm... I'd like to add another commercial OS that doesn't play DVD's right out of the box to this shocking list: Windows XP.

    At least with WMP9 I get a "Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on your computer".