Linked by Adam S on Mon 14th Feb 2005 05:10 UTC
This past week, Linspire showed the first public demo of Linspire Five-0. I was lucky enough to play with it for the last week, and within, you'll find a detailed walkthrough of what's new with Linspire.
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I thought the review was good and fair. I have been using Linspire since it was Lindows and I also run red hat on another machine.
The point that I think the review missed, just the reference by the reviewer of having to do some hand install/uninstall of products, is that Linspire is trying to make the Linux system idiot proof and usable by anyone. People complain MS crap is allover and Linux is better. I agree Linux is 10 times better. But what the Linux community needs to understand if they ever wish to see it overpower MS, is that it has to be EASY! This is what Linspire is trying to do. Not everyone is techie and can or wants to manually have to go make mods to get something working. Besides that to try to tell a consumer there are 5+ variations of Linux confuses the hell out of them.
So with any luck Linspire will continue to improve and people will start using it on their desktops instead of MS. :-) The only reason MS ever got adopted is they did a good job of copying Apple's UI. Without that, they would still be trying to get market share with MS-DOS :-) So think of it like this -- Linux has in the past and even up till Linspire -- been like MS-DOS to the general consumer. Linspire now is becoming better then Windows and can bring Linux into the mass market....
Just my 2 cents. Also I am just a fan of Linspire and have no vested interested in the company other then to see it wipe MS's marketshare away :-) :-)