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've tried Linspire 4.5 and one of my largest annoyances was the inability to uninstall applications provided in the base install through click-n-run or some other easy/documented utility ["easy/documented" as in you'd know about this utility from Linspire and not from being familiar with Debian and Apt]. Its quite ironic that while linux users complain that the basic end-user can't remove IE from windows, I found it just as impossible for a basic end-user to uninstall the Mozilla Seamonkey Suite from Linspire. Its really too bad that hasn't changed in Five-O.
Overall I like these kinds of distributions, and what they are trying to accomplish. However when certain basic things are hard to do like uninstalling base software in Linspire, or sharing a file/directory in Ubuntu, it gives the overall feeling that the user is placed in some kind of candy-coated-sandbox to make Linux user friendly.