Linspire's Market Has Changed: Adopt Or Die

Posted by gsh on Mar 16, 2008 7:45 PM EDT
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There is no question that most Linux distributions are too much for most people. I say this as a PC power user who happens to be a full-time Ubuntu/Fedora user. And back in 2004-2005, Linspire was indeed, the best overall beginner-friendly Linux option in the market. Then came improvements to Mandriva, new options like Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS (based on Mandriva), and recently, the new Fedora 8.

As an installable distro, Linspire has suddenly found themselves in a crowded marketplace. Even worse is that one distro is going to make life very tough for them - it's called gOS. I have talked at length about gOS in the past, how it sold out completely as it was OEM'ed on PCs sold at Wal-Mart and accomplished in a few days what Linspire never managed to do - get people lining up for this project.

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Adopt or die? golem 10 1,540 Mar 17, 2008 11:21 AM
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