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 the
previous 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
told to overwrite the partition, that's a bad thing indeed. However,
it's /such/ a bad thing, I can't imagine it getting past QA, short of you
actually saying that's what happened.

As for Freespire in general, as with SuSE before they opened up YaST and
the like, there was absolutely no chance of me using them in whatever form
before. I'm personally a power user and as such find Gentoo fits my own
needs very well, but Gentoo's the wrong thing to be installing for
(software) Free World OS newbies, as well as for "power challenged"
or "legacy" machines. Freespire now appears near the top of my list for
installation on the stereotypical "grandma's" machine. From what I've
read, their forums are extremely newbie friendly as well, lacking
the "RTFM" mentality of the support fora (generically used) of some
distributions (generically used as well, thus including the *BSDs and
potentially other choices in the Free World). For the
stereotypical "grandma" choice, that's perfect.

Of course, I'd actually install a copy of it here as well, and run it a
bit anyway, as well as checking the forums and etc myself, before turning
it loose on any other system I might install.

Duncan