I decided to write this review to provide a quick inside to the new Linspire 5.0 released on March 15th, 2005. The review will determine the use of Linspire 5.0 in a SOHO (Small Office Home Office) Environment. The download was free for me since I'm a current CNR subscriber. UPDATE: Another Linspire review, and the Linspire 5.0 Live CD is now available for free download.
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we are getting there. if you are developer, that stuff is already solid. in the web space, all thats missing is flash. in the office space, theres three "good enough for most things" office suites already. for music, theres some DAW environments starting to appear. the gimp/inkscape dont measure up to their commercial equivilents yet, but once they do they will fill large pieces of the puzzle. then there are things. after effects is one that is sorely missing from the video space, but things like blender and cinepaint are there and quite solid.
most of these things are relatively recent developments, and many arnt 1.0 yet. but compare the state of things now to five years ago, and it is night and day. many of the big pieces are there, or will be there soon.
we are getting there. if you are developer, that stuff is already solid. in the web space, all thats missing is flash. in the office space, theres three "good enough for most things" office suites already. for music, theres some DAW environments starting to appear. the gimp/inkscape dont measure up to their commercial equivilents yet, but once they do they will fill large pieces of the puzzle. then there are things. after effects is one that is sorely missing from the video space, but things like blender and cinepaint are there and quite solid.
most of these things are relatively recent developments, and many arnt 1.0 yet. but compare the state of things now to five years ago, and it is night and day. many of the big pieces are there, or will be there soon.