And yet you'll cannot believe people are confused about your product...wheneever it is "right there in a picture"! WOnder why people doubt linspires sincerity to stuff when they make tons of statements yet trying to follow up leads you nowhere with no explainations. Like how to get a source cd, first it was contact support then it was email a certain email address...... always confusing and not open at all!
Just a example of my "ill-informed" thoughts...
Have you ever thought about taking some of my criticism and instead of hitting back possibly stand back and look at it from a different perspective and make sure it is as clear as you'll think... nah...

It's confussing when you don't go to the source of the information.. go ahead and go to the source of the information..

AS what i said don't blame a Linux distro without knowing it, and yes to know a distro you have to use it and ask for the information.

Blame is easy, ask is easy also.. The first one will no have good results (not for the Linux comunity neither), asking and comunicating is helpfull for everyone.

I think you have to contact Support for the source CD, BUT if you contact Kendall (Community Liayson of Linspire) he might also assist you. but assistance from Kendall could be as less as forwarding your request to Support.

This reminds me of the old HOWTO's I would find on installing software in the good old RedHat 3 days, they always asumed you had Linux experience and knew how to install sourcecode software since it only stated to run configure make and make install but no detailed instructions.
And sometimes someting is so obvious to the people who frequently use it that they don't see that some other people might have trouble with it.

source

licensing

I'm now running Linspire after running Ubuntu, and it's not half bad. I think I'm going to keep using it, as I need something simple for my first year of highschool next year. I think even after all it's "evils" Linspire is the was Macro$oft should have been. Winblows's not as evil brother. I mean, anyone against Linspire, would you be as pissed if Linspire was the new Macrosoft? I wouldn't be. Wireless is easy, which I needed, although there's nothing a good shell script can't fix. Anyway.

-Peter

Hey now! I thought you had posted your last post/edit on this thread

Glad it works for you! It is a bit limited but if it suites your needs then that is cool! I find Xandros OCE to offer pretty much everything the basic linsprie does. Yes it may not be as "simple" but the price sure makes up for that! Especially to try out and see if it works for you before you have to pay!

Good luck!

You and me both. Don't worry, I wouldn't pay for it! I used the "coupon"!

-Peter

Yea, i actually tried the newest version for free as well... I just didnt see that it really offered anything above other distros and in some ways it actually limits you more than others. Very conservative pretty look though! I think they are going to focus on a "pro" version and I think they may actually do well catering to business desktops!

Yeah, they definately have some Winblows features, which are annoying me a little bit, but I'm slowly eliminating them one by one.

-Peter

BE CAREFUL! The more you tweak and play with a linspire system the closer you will get to breaking it until....WHOOPS! I wish they would consider being a bit more debian compliant! I would be happy if they would make sure you could use apt without it trying to "fix" all the linspire packages! They did FINALLY get rid of that harddrive.inf file thingy....and I think the script that went with it that rewrote fstab....! All very good steps!

I think it would not hurt if worldgnat and others expected some respect to be shown for their opinion, perhaps they could show respect for those who might think differently from them.

This would, imho, include stopping using derogatory lookalikes/sound alikes to the names of Microsoft, Windows, and other products available for sale.

To continually scornfully denigrate other products does little more than put them back into their own boxes, encouraging others to show them the contempt that perhaps they truly deserve themselves?

This is not a personal attack on the writer I named, but a general comment about the standard or level to which this thread has tried hard to maintain since it first started.

I wonder if the mods would consider closing the thread completely, and then closely scrutinising the titles and content of future ones like this? This is getting nowhere, and causing the whole forum to fall into disrepute. There is no need for this childish "I have to be right at all times and I'm not interested in anyone else's view because I'm right" approach.

Sadly, this is not a forum in the true sense any more. It seems to have turned into a platform where the illiterate continually whinge about what they think should be fact. It is this uninformed and rude attitude that is more likely to throttle the development of Linux as a desktop except for gurus and nerbs, and wanabe such.

Have I been banned? If I have, can you please tell me the reason?

Look, there is richard.a from the linspire forum as well! Do you'll wonder why all these people from linspire forums popped in here? Could it be that someone stated that you'll were a bit confused when it came to linspire and they should come over here and clarify some things for you! Isn't that sweet!

Jaketate,

Once again, there is no reason to dicuss Linspire forums here. If you have an issue with Linspire Forums take it up with them through other channels. Continuing on this path is here is a bad idea.

As far as the rest of this thread goes... I think it is clearly out of hand and I'm marking it for closure..

John

I just wanted to explain why all these linspire forum guys were showing up over here. I will certianly not make mention of L forums again. Thank you for informing me of a possible action and why that action would occur. It is nice to have something explained instead of just being blocked and deleted!