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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RE: No need for that crap:
by Vanders on Thu 18th Oct 2007 08:57
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Member since:2005-07-06
I don't know where people keep coming up with these lists. There are a lot of newbie Gentoo users, and there are a lot of "pro" Ubuntu users. SuSe is an enterprise server distribution for a lot of people, and you don't even list Fedora or RedHat which is possibly the enterprise distro.
RE: No need for that crap:
by Dekkard on Thu 18th Oct 2007 10:27
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Member since:2006-01-07
right.. and if you are really a pro and trying to keep a buttload of servers and desktops up, you certainly have time to do dependency checking and compile all your software.. please.. this argument is senseless.(yeah i know with gentoo its emerge.. and slack has its own tgz packages.. but to say that a pro would used debian and a newb use ubuntu is seriously erroneous.
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2006-06-26
If you're a newcomer: SUSE, Ubuntu.
If you're a pro: Debian, Slackware, Gentoo etc.
The rest is probably in between somewhere.