Wow I cant believe after about 4 years of trying to clear this rumour out people are still stuck on it..
Linspire has never forced anyone to run as root by default.
Upon first boot you are introduced with the option to create a user account.
Freespire will do this as part of the install step.
Linspire has always had the option to create a user account and boot from it.
Jeesh get it out of you heads. Are you also stuck on the idea that Linspire is suppose to run Windows apps too? =\
from what I understand there was only 1 release from linspire which used root as default and it was one of the first (if not the first) iso's they made and was a experamental release which was never a official public release.
This is a great move IMO on Linspires part and I really dont understand why its being recieved so negatively.
Use your preferred distro and be happy with it. Does everyone really feel a need to go bashing on another distro simply because its not the one that they use?
To top things off Linspire is a big sponsor of a lot of the major open source projects but no props for that either.
Most people seem to be pretty good at nothing but bashing.
Please show me some big support coming from Ubuntu for some major open source projects.
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Wow I cant believe after about 4 years of trying to clear this rumour out people are still stuck on it.. Linspire has never forced anyone to run as root by default. Upon first boot you are introduced with the option to create a user account. Freespire will do this as part of the install step. Linspire has always had the option to create a user account and boot from it. Jeesh get it out of you heads. Are you also stuck on the idea that Linspire is suppose to run Windows apps too? =\ from what I understand there was only 1 release from linspire which used root as default and it was one of the first (if not the first) iso's they made and was a experamental release which was never a official public release.
This is a great move IMO on Linspires part and I really dont understand why its being recieved so negatively. Use your preferred distro and be happy with it. Does everyone really feel a need to go bashing on another distro simply because its not the one that they use? To top things off Linspire is a big sponsor of a lot of the major open source projects but no props for that either. Most people seem to be pretty good at nothing but bashing. Please show me some big support coming from Ubuntu for some major open source projects.