The 2004 Desktop Linux Summit [LWN.net]

The 2004 Desktop Linux Summit

Posted Apr 29, 2004 3:48 UTC (Thu) by gavino (guest, #16214)
Parent article: The 2004 Desktop Linux Summit

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They've changed their name remember?

I think the reception of a desktop linux conference headed by Linspire would be a bit lukewarm, given the Linux old-guard's scepticism of Linspire. I mean a distro that runs a user with root privs and charges them to download bundles of OSS using their propriatary delivery mechanism. No thank you - give me Fedora any day.

I don't hold out much hope for Linux on Joe User's desktop until such awesome projects like Project Utopia come to being. Adding and removing devices on the fly is still too much of a headache. The corporate desktop, OTOH is ripe for Linux. It's all coming together though (thanks Robert Love!) - the future is bright.

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Lindows/Linspire

Posted Apr 29, 2004 5:53 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

s/Lindows/Linspire
They've changed their name remember?

As I understand it, they changed the name of the product, not the company.

I mean a distro that runs a user with root privs and charges them to download bundles of OSS using their propriatary delivery mechanism.

They don't run the user as root anymore. And while Click-N-Run may be overpriced, I'm pretty sure it uses the quite non-proprietary apt-get delivery mechanism.