Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 17th Oct 2007 20:34 UTC
"Former Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony was pretty gung-ho about the company's upcoming release back in June. He said it would 'fill some key holes in our current offering'. Unfortunately Linspire 6, released last week, lacks the refinements you'd expect in a distro you pay USD 50 to download. It drops some key distinguishing features, and in return gains only some Microsoft technology as spelled out in the Microsoft patent covenants Linspire agreed to. This release seems to be about deferring to Microsoft."
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2007-04-11
I suggested a couple months ago that Linspire should just let go and let the community develop the distro.
I am sure it would do much better than a salaried company to produce a distro whose only advantage is a couple pre-installed propietary formats and codecs which can be installed on other distros with a click of a mouse button.
Hell, Linspire dont even have a 3-d desktop on default install with wallpaper looking like Mandrake 8.2 . Just referencing and not trolling since I use Mandriva on my server and I liked Mandrake 8.2.
I dont see Linspire lasting another 2 years with distros like Ubuntu,OpenSuse,Mandriva and Fedora who are making more significant strides with each release.Plus they are "smaller" distros who are very damned newbie friendly.