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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. Root still the default login? by Jack+Taylor · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The question is, do they still reccomend users to log in as root for everday use? The thing that put me off Linspire the most was that they have the full power of the Unix security model but they don't bother using it.

    --
    One good turn - gets all the covers.
    1. Re:Root still the default login? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      You are given the option to set up a new user when installing and on first boot and are even explained why you should do so. It has been this way since vesion 4.5. Can we please stop the "run as root" myth about Linspire.

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

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  4. 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".

  5. Create partition ahead of time? by Drencrom · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Like in Linspire 4.0, you have to prep a partition ahead of time or take over the entire disk at install

    Is it only me or this should not happen in a new distro installer?
    More so considering it is oriented to windows users.