User User name Password  
   
Wednesday 27.11.2024 / 18:02
Search AfterDawn Forums:        In English   Suomeksi   På svenska
afterdawn.com > forums > software, operating systems and more > linux - general discussion > freespire
Show topics
 
Forums
Forums
Freespire
  Jump to:
 
Posted Message
DMW
Member
_
15. September 2006 @ 15:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi all,
Has anyone tried this distro? http://www.freespire.org/

I was bored and was randomly searching and saw an article about it. All I can gather is it's the development version of Linspire and they use latest versions of software for testing and then release them under Linspire. (The CNR, click-n-run software install that they used to charge for is now free!)

It's debian based, they have 2 versions, a completely open source version and 1 that comes with pre-installed media stuff ie codecs, java etc, stuff you usually have to get and aims to make an easy transition from windows.

I've downloaded it, but not tried it yet and am happy at the minute with Mepis, just wondered what the general opinon, if any, was.


The_Fiend
Suspended permanently
_
15. September 2006 @ 18:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It's the winblows under the linux distro's, stay away from it is my advice

irc://arcor.de.eu.dal.net/wasted_hate

Wanna tell me off, go ahead.
I dare ya !
DMW
Member
_
19. September 2006 @ 01:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yeah must admit that was the impression I was given.

I remeber reading about Linspire when it was still Lindows and that they logged you in as root by default! Never heard of that on any other linux distro lol.

Might boot it in a Virtual machine just to have a ganders, but from what I've read it doesn't offer me anything special, I thought it might be a good way for me to get my Windows mates/Linux nOObs to give it a go.

Fire>Frying pan, not worth it I guess. lol.


afterdawn.com > forums > software, operating systems and more > linux - general discussion > freespire
 

Digital video: AfterDawn.com | AfterDawn Forums
Music: MP3Lizard.com
Gaming: Blasteroids.com | Blasteroids Forums | Compare game prices
Software: Software downloads
Blogs: User profile pages
RSS feeds: AfterDawn.com News | Software updates | AfterDawn Forums
International: AfterDawn in Finnish | AfterDawn in Swedish | AfterDawn in Norwegian | download.fi
Navigate: Search | Site map
About us: About AfterDawn Ltd | Advertise on our sites | Rules, Restrictions, Legal disclaimer & Privacy policy
Contact us: Send feedback | Contact our media sales team
 
  © 1999-2024 by AfterDawn Ltd.

  IDG TechNetwork