Linare Linux Desktop OS launches [LWN.net]

Linare Linux Desktop OS launches

Posted Sep 8, 2003 15:16 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] (2 responses)

Linare Linux includes Mozilla mail software, the increasingly popular Outlook-styled email program

From the website:

Linare comes with Kmail, the increasingly popular Outlook-style email program.

Also please look at the "development community" page. The only way to join it to write an e-mail to some obscure address. There are no mailing lists to join. There are no mailing list archives to see what's being discussed. There is no technical information about e.g. package format and versions of the software. There is no release roadmap. There is no bug tracking system. But there are smiling faces on every page, as if they can influence my decision to participate in the development.

The spirit of "open source" (let alone "free software") seems to be completely missing. Besides, who wants to pay money for a distribution without a bug tracking system?

Linare Linux Desktop OS launches

Posted Sep 8, 2003 17:08 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] (1 responses)

Another nice quote from Terms & Conditions:

Usage Rules

You agree not to:

[snip]

Gather information available at Linare by any means other than a widely used browser
such as the Internet Explorer.

Using or attempting to use any engine, software, tool, agent, or other device or mechanism
(including without limitation: browsers, spiders, robots, avatars, or intelligent agents)
to navigate or search the Site, other than the search engine and search agents available
from the Company on the Site and other than generally available third-party Web browsers
(e.g., Microsoft Explorer).

[snip]

This Agreement is entered into in the State of Washington and shall be governed by
and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Washington.

This makes me wonder if Linare is the much dreaded Microsoft Linux :-)

Linare Linux Desktop OS launches

Posted Sep 8, 2003 18:04 UTC (Mon) by cpeterso (guest, #305) [Link]

Microsoft Linux? Well, Linaire DOES have an office in downtown Bellevue, WA, which is adjacent to Redmond, WA (Microsoft HQ)! :-)

http://www.linare.com/contact_bellevue.php

linare.com

Posted Sep 8, 2003 15:52 UTC (Mon) by davidw (guest, #947) [Link]

@ashland [~] $ serversoftware http://www.linare.com/
Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_perl/1.26 PHP/4.2.2 FrontPage/5.0.2 mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.6b

It's probably hosted somewhere, but still...

Linare Linux Desktop OS launches

Posted Sep 8, 2003 16:27 UTC (Mon) by pointwood (guest, #2814) [Link] (1 responses)

Yes! Let us kill it before they even had a chance...

It's not something I would buy, but I'm taking a wait and see approach. It could be a really cool company - who knows?

Maybe I'm just a more positive kind of guy :)

Linare Linux Desktop OS launches

Posted Sep 8, 2003 17:21 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

A few negative comments won't kill them. It doesn't seem they are too much worried about their image in the eyes of those who write the software they are going to sell.

Re: press release

Posted Sep 8, 2003 17:44 UTC (Mon) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link]

How sad, that they start off by immediately making threats against those who would view their site with something other than microsoft internet explorer.

I have no further interest in their offerings, thanks.