Wow Linspire is a great distro

linspirefan · 09-01-2005, 08:06 PM

I bought a new PC from Wal-mart (which is incredibly kewl BTW) and I am very impressed with the Linspire distro that came installed. It is fast, customizable and brilliantly done. Hats off to Michael Robertson.

Does anyone else here use Linspire as their Linux distro? I am so happy to dump my Windows 98 and join in this revolution of Linux. My girlfriend totally doesn't even know any commands. I totally pwned her with my knowledge of the kernal

Charred · 09-01-2005, 09:14 PM

Well, truth be told, they all are, really.

simeandrews · 09-01-2005, 09:35 PM

I tried the live CD, and it was pretty good. I'm sticking to the 100% (maybe 99%) freeness of Fedora, though.

Vgui · 09-02-2005, 12:13 AM

Hehe, I really liked this line: "My girlfriend totally doesn't even know any commands. I totally pwned her with my knowledge of the kernel". Anyways, that's good you found something you like, since there certainly are a lot of distros to choose from. Good to hear that those Walmart PCs with Linux preinstalled are out there.
Make sure to ignore anyone who says harsh things about Linspire, a lot of people don't like it because of CNR, or it not being free, etc, it if works for you, then that's what matters for you.

aysiu · 09-02-2005, 02:27 AM

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Originally posted by Vgui
a lot of people don't like it because of CNR, or it not being free, etc, it if works for you, then that's what matters for you.

Those two things aren't mutually exclusive. I personally don't like CNR, but I believe Linspire is a great distro for many people--just not me. To each her own.

Komakino · 09-02-2005, 06:50 AM

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Originally posted by aysiu
Those two things aren't mutually exclusive. I personally don't like CNR, but I believe Linspire is a great distro for many people--just not me. To each her own.

Ahhh, a girl geek! For years I have searched for one such as you

No really, it's great to know there are girls using linux out there are not just the stereotypical spotty, smelly, dandruffy, loner geek guy who orders pizza to the lab at 11PM and plays xpilot until sunrise*

(*this is based on real people I know!!)

simeandrews · 09-02-2005, 09:12 AM

They've started giving me discounts on pizza.

lectraplayer · 09-05-2005, 09:50 PM

Me, I'm a CNR hater, but you can get around that so long as you realize that Linspire is a scaled-down variant of Debian. You'll have to go through some dependencies, but you can build it more the way you want easier than you can, say, RedHat. I like the RPM, but am wondering why the flavor's so freakin' HUGE!

btw: after seeing Komakino's sig, I must put one side note here: Please don't call it the Redhat RPM manager, that's a redundant acronym, seeing that RPM stands for Redhat Package Manager.

jaketate · 09-06-2005, 09:58 AM

redundant acronyms are abundant in the IT field and loads of fun....
NT technology
smtp protocol
etc....

lectraplayer · 09-07-2005, 10:00 PM

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Originally posted by jaketate
redundant acronyms are abundant in the IT field and loads of fun....
NT technology
smtp protocol
etc....

Those are not "proper" redundant acronyms, but misused acronyms

New Technology (this is actually what NT means on the end of Windows NT!)
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

If you want some redundant acronyms, try these on for size:

GNU--GNU, Not Unix!
WINEe--WINe Is Not an Emulator.

* this conclues our English lesson for the day.

*

jaketate · 09-07-2005, 10:55 PM

isnt it redundant to say the same thing twice...

I think you are thinking of recursive acronyms!
study harder for the next class!

Charred · 09-07-2005, 11:29 PM

It's recursive.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html...e-acronym.html

lectraplayer · 09-11-2005, 08:57 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by jaketate
isnt it redundant to say the same thing twice...

I think you are thinking of recursive acronyms!
study harder for the next class!

D'oh!

Got me, lol.

I'm supprised I got away with it this long.

1kyle · 09-14-2005, 01:02 PM

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Originally posted by lectraplayer
Those are not "proper" redundant acronyms, but misused acronyms
New Technology (this is actually what NT means on the end of Windows NT!)
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

If you want some redundant acronyms, try these on for size:
GNU--GNU, Not Unix!
WINEe--WINe Is Not an Emulator.

* this conclues our English lesson for the day. *

I always thought that Windows NT was Windows No Thanks or Windows NeanderThal.

And in anycase the motto from that Great University in Redmond is

"Yesterdays Technology Tomorrow"

or like a sign greating you at a typical Irish Bar

"Free Beer Tomorrow"

Cheers
-K

eagles-lair · 09-16-2005, 09:04 AM

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This is my signature! Not a post aimed at any one person....
A quick English lesson:
1. "Your" is possessive. "You're" is a contraction of "You are". Why do otherwise intelligent people make statements like "Your running the wrong program"? It's not hard.
2. "There" refers to something like "over there". "Their" is possessive of them. "They're" is "they are".
3. Plurals DO NOT HAVE APOSTROPHES. Yes really: no "dog's", no "cat's", no "program's" and definitely no "carrot's"
4. Try punctuating occasionally. It makes your question easier to understand and means I'm more likely to try to answer it. I'm probably not the only one.

Love your signature