Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Jun 2008 23:55 UTC, submitted by sjvn
In what seems like a battle of ants in a case full of lions, Practical Technology has learned that Xandros has bought Linspire. "In an announcement that was sent out today, June 30, to Linspire stockholders, CEO Larry Kettler wrote that the stockholders had decided to sell all of Linspire's assets. This deal specifically includes Linspire, Freespire, and the company's distribution agnostic CNR (Click 'N Run) desktop installation platform." Not everyone is very happy with this one, though.
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Member since:2005-07-06
"Also to be honest almost all distros based on KDE are stuck. KDE 4 is still not ready for prime time. so that adds to troubles for distros."
IMO, distributions aiming "at granny" should simply stay with KDE3.5 for quite a while, or at least until KDE4 becomes rock-solid and feature complete.
Heck, I am not "a granny", but I am choosing to stay with KDE3.5 for quite a while.
Member since:2005-11-10
Member since:
2005-11-10
You are right. What was so stupid is they based Linspire on the cutting edge Ubuntu and not LTS. Soon as Ubuntu came out with a new version 6 months later, Linspire was now behind and is still behind.
STUPID.
Also to be honest almost all distros based on KDE are stuck. KDE 4 is still not ready for prime time. so that adds to troubles for distros.
Linspire and Xandros are in limbo ether way!
Good bye Linspire! Good bye!