Download Linspire 5 free?

phantom_cyph · 07-13-2007, 09:59 PM

Goodness gracious. I wasn't "bad mouthing" anything. What I said is simply logical.

I.e. there is a whole car dealership with 486 Corvettes, GTs, Vipers, and Lamborghini's and you can have any of them for free. Or, you could have an 82' Ford Taurus that you could pay $50 for. Which would you actually go for?

I think mister eagles-lair is a little over-sensitive. If anyone is turning this into a biased thread, it isnt me. I simply stated that I, and no one I know has ever had any luck with the given distro. I can say the same about Gentoo, Slackware, FreeBSD, etc. I haven't heard anything against Linspire from you. Point taken?

DeanLinkous · 07-13-2007, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by eagles-lair

I don't know why some people get the urge to bad-mouth something they don't personally like.

I suggest that you might do better to take your boring self-opinionated self to somewhere like slashdot perhaps, and join your mates in deriding everything that other people create because it doesn't fulfill whatever you think your more important needs are, boyo

nice personal attack! How about just offering your experience the same as that fellow did and leaving the personal stuff out of it.

It isn't 'bad-mouthing' something to tell of your experience with it.

My experience is that it is slow, buggy, and delicate which does not make for a good combination overall.

eagles-lair · 07-13-2007, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by DeanLinkous

nice personal attack! How about just offering your experience the same as that fellow did and leaving the personal stuff out of it.

Look up to post #13 on the previous page. Or maybe that isn't helpful enough for your ideals?

To save you the bothersome trouble of going back to look, here, let me paste it in a box...

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Originally Posted by eagles-lair

You won't find it on the Linspire Live CD

You will find it on the Freespire one because like most distros these days, it is dual-purpose.

It is on the grub menu it boots from. Forget which item, but from memory Freespire choices start with
1. Live and
2. Install.

Richard

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Originally Posted by DeanLinkous

It isn't 'bad-mouthing' something to tell of your experience with it.

My experience is that it is slow, buggy, and delicate which does not make for a good combination overall.

Your response there, and that of the other fellow, were both off topic. Neither of you were being helpful.

Had I also mentioned that I found it slow to boot, I would also have been off topic, which would not have helped the chap with the original question at all.

unSpawn · 07-14-2007, 05:53 AM

Everybody has the right to voice their own opinion. You have no right to call your fellow LQ members names or to show disrespect for their opinion. After all it's theirs, however bad experience they had or however badly phrased it is. If a few people battle it out, please don't step in unless you know how to deal with it from an unbiassed point of view. If you're getting overheated think twice or call in a moderator. After all we're the ones with the restraining kits, HAZMAT gear and the BFG2000 :-]

So from now on keep this thread on topic and do not, I repeat, do not, retalliate (you know what I mean).

On a personal note: As F/OSS contributor to a few projects and F/OSS developer I do not think anyone here has the right to say something "sucks". It's disrespectful towards those that put time and effort in making it happen. It's a way too easy shot if you haven't been actively involved with the project. A lot of people tend to say things suck and then just ditch the app. If you haven't even *tried* to make things better then that's you showing signs of an egotistical, consumerist attitude. That's not contributing to the OSS cause, which is what F/OSS needs. Period.

eagles-lair · 07-14-2007, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by unSpawn

If you're getting overheated think twice or call in a moderator.

I did. I hope that's why you are here.

It might be useful for you talk to XavierP about the history of past posts he has had to moderate over the years this distro has had a forum here.

unSpawn · 07-14-2007, 10:25 AM

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It might be useful for you talk to XavierP about the history of past posts he has had to moderate over the years this distro has had a forum here.

If I thought the situation warranted it I would certainly browse a few threads back, investigate your and the other peoples handles at LQ and open comms with my fellow mods. Then again I already was a mod at LQ before the Linspire forum saw the light, so while things may seem a little rough at times here they aren't as rough as other clashes I've encountered.

DeanLinkous · 07-14-2007, 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by eagles-lair

Had I also mentioned that I found it slow to boot, I would also have been off topic, which would not have helped the chap with the original question at all.

Actually, I think it may be very helpful to mention that. While it is not a direct response to the question(s) it is on-topic (in general) since the topic is Linspire 5. It is some information that the OP may be very interested in, and glad to receive so he didnt waste his time if he did not care for slow booting operating systems.

Similar to those that purchase it for systems with sata controllers only to find out that many of them are not supported. Certainly that would be relevant info that you would pass along even if someone wasnt specifically asking about it.

A personal attack on the other hand is never on-topic either.

hankshoe · 07-19-2007, 08:44 PM

how do i get freespire to boot up from "c"
freespire is not reccongnize as an os by the motherboard duing boot up

phantom_cyph · 07-19-2007, 08:56 PM

hankshoe, this ^^ (what you did) is referred to as "stealing a thread". You need to post a new thread with your question. To try and help with your question though (when you start a new thread, present your answer to this also), what is your BIOS set up like? Is it booting off the CD drive, or set to something else?