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Linspire's Market Has Changed: Adopt Or Die

Posted by gsh on · 12 comments
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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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Comments (12)

Not really

tracyanne ·
Quoting:And back in 2004-2005, Linspire was indeed, the best overall beginner-friendly Linux option in the market.


Not really. So long as everything else was perfect it was fine, but the moment you needed to do anything fancy the noob had to very quickly learn how to use the command line, there was no nice safe gui for them to rely on -I know that Mandriva in 2004-2005 was much more noob friendly - and if they had to do a reinstall (upgrade) the OS, there was every chance that all the user accounts would have full root access.

I see also that Matt Hartley's discovered other distros.

Actually just die, would be a good idea for Linspire.

Adopt or die?

golem ·
The title makes no sense. Probably meant "adapt or die".
zenarcher ·
Errors such as pointed out here, tend to slap one's credibility for the core of the article, does it not?
tracyanne ·
It's not even as if it's an easy typo to make.
Sander_Marechal ·
Quoting:It's not even as if it's an easy typo to make.


On a dvorak keyboard, the A and O are right next to eachother: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard
jezuch ·
Quoting:Errors such as pointed out here, tend to slap one's credibility for the core of the article, does it not?


Apparently not Matt Hartley's...
Scott_Ruecker ·
Matt has credibility?!?!?

If he gets some, then I get some too!

:-)
tuxchick ·
Quoting: Matt has credibility?!?!? If he gets some, then I get some too!


The Towel Man of LXer has credibility up to the gills!
Scott_Ruecker ·
I happen to be a very good Towel Man..of LXer..

stupid credibility..

LOL!!
tuxchick ·
Anyway since it's hartley, probably what he really meant was "Foster parents rock, and don't yell at me because my story had to sit in the edit queue for a long long time."
NoDough ·
Quoting:If he gets some, then I get some too!
Scott,

I'm sure you get much more than Matt.

Ummm, credibility that is.
Scott_Ruecker ·
glad we clarified that!

LOL!!!

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