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Linspire's "Click 'N Run" service now free
Linspire has announced that its "Click 'N Run" service is now available free of charge. "The strong revenue stream
from the commercial desktop Linux software applications, as well as the
premium 'CNR Gold' service, has opened the door for Linspire to offer the
basic CNR service at no charge to all Linspire and Freespire users."
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Linspire's "Click 'N Run" service now free Posted Aug 30, 2006 23:12 UTC (Wed) by horen (subscriber, #2514) [Link] I read the announcement, and then spent considerable time on their website (being unemployed is a good I'm impressed that they took Linspire into the realm of FLOSS, creating Freespire -- and not just a single version of it, but two versions: one containing proprietary codecs, binaries, etc., and one "pure". They didn't have to offer us Freespire OSS; they could have left in the proprietary stuff, and been just like many other distributions. I think their doing so gives them a place to stand on that limited turf known as the "moral high-ground". I'm impressed with their Wiki and Forums; with the documentation, both written and WIP; and I'm most impressed with their continuing push (and success) in making Linspire/Freespire a desktop Linux OS that is useful for both newbies and veterans, alike. Yes, I downloaded the Freespire/1.0.13 ISO image, and plan to install it on my Toshiba Tecra 8100, replacing the current Fedora Core 5 installation (which a recent posting to LWN regarding the "2006 Linux Desktop Survey" referred-to as requiring "forklift upgrades"). "Click 'n Run" certainly bears looking into.
Linspire's "Click 'N Run" service now free Posted Aug 31, 2006 22:36 UTC (Thu) by horen (subscriber, #2514) [Link] I'm a man of my word, and earlier this afternoon I installed Freespire/1.0.13 on my Toshiba Tecra 8100 (Pentium-III/700MHz, 512MB RAM, 40GB drive). My reactions:
Overall, I didn't like it. I find KDE (and the other window managers) to be heavy and ponderous, and the plethora of configuration options (which seem to pop-up without my wanting them to) were overwhelming. I once worked as a Unix sysadmin in Silicon Valley, and when I started, I asked my manager (the CEO/CTO) for guidelines vis-a-vis end-user support. His reply was "Don't spend time helping them turn desktop icons on their sides." I think KDE (and the others) encourage end-users to do just that, with their (almost) infinitely configurable GUIs. Now I'll see about installing Ubuntu "alternate" over it!
Linspire's "Click 'N Run" service now free Posted Sep 1, 2006 1:44 UTC (Fri) by horen (subscriber, #2514) [Link] While installing Ubuntu, replacing Freespire, I discovered that Freespire's installation program had -- without asking my permission -- changed the type of /dev/hda1 from ext3 to reiserfs. This is a big "no-no", totally unacceptable in my book. It smacks of M$oft's paternalistic attitude, and I resent it.
Linspire's "Click 'N Run" service now free Posted Sep 8, 2006 12:24 UTC (Fri) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link] If /dev/hda1 was the place Freespire was installed and it overwrote theprevious content of the partition anyway, I see nothing wrong with changing to reiserfs for its own installation. That would appear to be their default, and if the installation is simple enough not to offer another choice (that's where the choice you were just disparaging comes in, yes, I'm a KDE user, /because/ of the choice it offers) or if it does but you didn't change it...
OTOH, if /dev/hda1 was not where Freespire was installed and it wasn't
As for Freespire in general, as with SuSE before they opened up YaST and
Of course, I'd actually install a copy of it here as well, and run it a
Duncan
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