Linspire 5.0 Free For Limited Time

drunkennewfiemidget writes "The people at Linspire are giving Linspire 5.0 away for free (digital download only) until September 6th. Simply go to purchase the $49.95 digital edition, and then enter coupon code 'freespire' to receive a $49.95 discount." From the site: "'Freespire' was the term Andrew Betts gave to a private project he had been working on. The project comprised various open source components, taken from the freely available source repository for the Linspire operating system...Linspire has no problem with anyone using the open source code from our operating system - in fact we applaud such projects. The name Freespire, however, did create some confusion in the short time it was used...We thought it would be fun, for all of those who were looking at this project to experience a true 'Freespire', to give away a free digital copy of Linspire for a few days!"

Comments

It's rather quite impressive.

[CyricZ]

Linspire is actually quite impressive. It is a step in the right direction for desktop Linux. While not as easy to use as Mac OS X, for instance, it is still an ideal system to set up for office use, and is quite friendly to the new Linux user.

It provides an excellent stepping stone towards SuSE or Debian. A new user gets the basics down pat easily and quickly, and soon he or she is ready to use a more traditional Linux distro.

Outstanding

[Mad Ogre]

I am a Linspire PC builder... and I love this OS. As far as Linux distros go, it might not be the "best" out there, but for Windows Refugees just turning to Linux - its perfect.

Re:n/t

[OrangeSpyderMan]

I would hardly call BeOS "dead".

Yes, my Commodre64 still works. Doesn't stop it being dead ;-)

Re:There are easier ways to do this

[TheSpoom]

The Opera giveaway converted me. As much as I dislike the zealots who basically are walking ads for Opera and think they can do no wrong, it does seem to be much faster on this computer, the download manager is much better, and there are several features built into the tab system that aren't readily available in Firefox. I think I'll be silently using this for a while.