Linked by Michael Valentine on Mon 28th Mar 2005 19:49 UTC
Linspire 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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Pretty good
by Anonymous on Mon 28th Mar 2005 20:51 UTC

Linspire insinsts on making sure you use Linux application instead of Windows one, when you click on an .exe. Not the best solution imo, they should offer to install Wine when you do that.

For SOHO, I couldn't find a decent replacement for Araxis' Winmerge. All the Linux visual diffing software fall short.

Other than that. Linspire is a fine Linux distro if you know how to compile kernel modules. Their Linspire Suite is actually pretty useful out of the box.