Any thoughts here? Is this the death of Linspire, complimentary merger, or
what? Is my Linspire machine suddenly obsolete?

On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:30:16 -0400, Pete wrote:

> Any thoughts here? Is this the death of Linspire, complimentary merger,
> or what? Is my Linspire machine suddenly obsolete?

Does it still work for you? If so, then it is not obsolete.

Pete wrote:
> Any thoughts here? Is this the death of Linspire, complimentary merger,
> or what? Is my Linspire machine suddenly obsolete?

The Xandros guy Andy Typaldos sez^1 Linspire continues. The ex-Linspire
guy Kevin Carmony sez^2 he has doubts.

^1 http://www.osnews.com/story/19946/Q&...dreas_Typaldos
Q&A: Xandros' CEO Andreas Typaldos - A: Yes.

^2
http://kevincarmony.blogspot.com/200...ere-comes-spin.
html Xandros / Linspire - Here Comes the Spin - Q: Will Freespire
continue to be maintained as an open source project? - A: Yes. - Check
back on this in six months. Xandros has never had a free, community
distro.

Personally, I believe that Xandros will keep Linspire -- and I don't
believe that linspire/freespire are as unpopular/unwanted as they would
seem to be by some people's 'reckoning'. They rank 38/78 (free/lin) at
distrowatch, but there are a number of reasons that a distrowatch pagehit
ranking doesn't necessarily accurately reflect a distro's 'significance'
to its users, much less how likely a distro is to be packaged with linux
machines for sale.

I have a Freespire on a partition and I like it. I've used Linspire since
I bought a computer with it factory installed, and one of my Win friends
who often needs a lot of help with Win problems took to the Linspire like
a duck to water, and he liked it. I don't think I had to help him with
anything about the LInspire.


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Mike Easter

In <l5-dnTuZCsysuPHVnZ2dnUVZ_tTinZ2d@earthlink.com>, on Wed, 2 Jul 2008
18:02:52 -0700, Mike Easter, MikeE@ster.invalid wrote:

> Xandros has never had a free, community distro.

I downloaded Xandros 3.x maybe 4 years ago. They still
had a free downloadable distro for at least a year after
that. It was way too resource hungry for the machine I
installed it on, so I replaced it with something less
bloated.

The free download version wasn't super easy to find
on their site, but it was there if you were persistent.

Mike Easter;1068615 Wrote:
> Pete wrote: Xandros has never had a free, community
> distro.

Yes and no. They released a stripped down version in 2004. This was
definitely not viewed as a community distro.

'Xandros gives away desktop Linux | Tech News on ZDNet'
(http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5229897.html)


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LPH

"ray" <ray@zianet.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:30:16 -0400, Pete wrote:
>
>> Any thoughts here? Is this the death of Linspire, complimentary merger,
>> or what? Is my Linspire machine suddenly obsolete?
>
> Does it still work for you? If so, then it is not obsolete.

I guess I mean is it now an orphan?!
-Pete

"Pete" <Pete@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Any thoughts here? Is this the death of Linspire, complimentary merger, or
> what? Is my Linspire machine suddenly obsolete?
>


I've been using Linux (at least part time) since that days of Red Hat 5.2

and have tried a lot of different distros. Most of them worked well.

The only one that never worked at all was Linspire...

and though the GUI looked pretty nice...the only version of Linux that seems
to have constant application crashes was Xandros.


Seems like a good idea that they have combined!