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From: Pete on 2 Jul 2008 19:30 Any thoughts here? Is this the death of Linspire, complimentary merger, or what? Is my Linspire machine suddenly obsolete?
From: ray on 2 Jul 2008 20:27 On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:30:16 -0400, Pete wrote: > Any thoughts here? Is this the death of Linspire, complimentary merger, > or what? Is my Linspire machine suddenly obsolete? Does it still work for you? If so, then it is not obsolete.
From: Mike Easter on 2 Jul 2008 21:02 Pete wrote: > Any thoughts here? Is this the death of Linspire, complimentary merger, > or what? Is my Linspire machine suddenly obsolete? The Xandros guy Andy Typaldos sez^1 Linspire continues. The ex-Linspire guy Kevin Carmony sez^2 he has doubts. ^1 http://www.osnews.com/story/19946/Q&A:_Xandros_CEO_Andreas_Typaldos Q&A: Xandros' CEO Andreas Typaldos - A: Yes. ^2 http://kevincarmony.blogspot.com/2008/07/xandros-linspire-here-comes-spin. html Xandros / Linspire - Here Comes the Spin - Q: Will Freespire continue to be maintained as an open source project? - A: Yes. - Check back on this in six months. Xandros has never had a free, community distro. Personally, I believe that Xandros will keep Linspire -- and I don't believe that linspire/freespire are as unpopular/unwanted as they would seem to be by some people's 'reckoning'. They rank 38/78 (free/lin) at distrowatch, but there are a number of reasons that a distrowatch pagehit ranking doesn't necessarily accurately reflect a distro's 'significance' to its users, much less how likely a distro is to be packaged with linux machines for sale. I have a Freespire on a partition and I like it. I've used Linspire since I bought a computer with it factory installed, and one of my Win friends who often needs a lot of help with Win problems took to the Linspire like a duck to water, and he liked it. I don't think I had to help him with anything about the LInspire. -- Mike Easter
From: LPH on 3 Jul 2008 12:21 Mike Easter;1068615 Wrote: > Pete wrote: Xandros has never had a free, community > distro. Yes and no. They released a stripped down version in 2004. This was definitely not viewed as a community distro. 'Xandros gives away desktop Linux | Tech News on ZDNet' (http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5229897.html) -- LPH
From: Pete on 3 Jul 2008 13:51
"ray" <ray(a)zianet.com> wrote in message news:6d2knkFhqqsU1(a)mid.individual.net... > On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:30:16 -0400, Pete wrote: > >> Any thoughts here? Is this the death of Linspire, complimentary merger, >> or what? Is my Linspire machine suddenly obsolete? > > Does it still work for you? If so, then it is not obsolete. I guess I mean is it now an orphan?! -Pete |