Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Nov 2006 17:18 UTC, submitted by chrishaney
The first development build of Freespire 2.0 has been released: "Freespire version 2.0 Alpha (1.1.57) is now available for download. New features: KDM login manager; KDE 3.5.5 with user switching and SuperKaramba; kernel 2.6.18; desktop directory names (no spaces); Lbrowser with Flash Player 9 beta; Lmail including FreeLinuxEmail; Gaim 2.0.0 beta4; OpenOffice.org 2.0.4."
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2006-01-10
Whine whine, I DO use Ubuntu, but Freespire appeals to me for OTHER people. I don't want to support KDE (since I don't use it enough myself) and Freespire also (due to some lawsuits between Microsoft and Lindows) has the right to distribute the Microsoft codecs, which makes for a nice out of the box install.
And yes this is pertinent to the article, since in their forums (remember that Freespire is a "Community project") that there are a lot of requests for gnome packages for Freespire.
It is not a shallow attempt at propaganda, I was having a coherent argument. Simple fact of the matter is, it's easier to support one type of DE than two (or three or four, etc). Why else do you think that every distribution has chosen ONE DE as default.
When I install Linux on someone's PC, I know I can expect questions, and it's much easier to answer if they are using Gnome. I would just like to see Freespire be all it can be.
Then again, maybe I'm crazy, but I personally prefer Debian out of all of them, unfortunately I also like the latest Gnome, so I use Ubuntu. But I'm always looking for another distribution to help out with or become a part of, but I do prefer Gnome for it's simplicity.