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First Impressions of Freespire 1.0

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tapping-a-market dept.

Nate writes "Freespire 1.0 was released a few days ago, taking the desktop-oriented Linspire distribution and making it freely available (as in beer) to the world. Linux Format has some first impressions of the release, focusing on its much-trumpeted media playback facilities thanks to codec licensing. Flash, Java, DVD and WMV support out-the-box — could this climb to the top of the desktop distro ladder?"

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  1. same bs, different day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ho-hum, another "first impressions" post about another scatterbrained Linux distro. Gee how exciting.

    You dudes live in the dark ages with your umpteen Linux distros and your kernel recompiling and your video driver nightmares and your lame ass desktop wars.

    I bought a Mac and stopped worrying about this YEARS ago. Now I just get stuff done. But you kids go ahead on now, go and play with your toys. Youth is wasted on the wrong people.