Free Linspire Until Spet. 6th!

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03 Sep 2005, 12:00 AM
ChaoofNee

Free Linspire Until Spet. 6th!

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Originally Posted by Slashdot

Linux: Linspire 5.0 Free For Limited Time
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Posted by Zonk on Friday September 02, @06:28PM
from the free-as-in-beer dept.
drunkennewfiemidget writes "The people at Linspire are giving Linspire 5.0 away for free (digital download only) until September 6th. Simply go to purchase the $49.95 digital edition, and then enter coupon code 'freespire' to receive a $49.95 discount." From the site: "'Freespire' was the term Andrew Betts gave to a private project he had been working on. The project comprised various open source components, taken from the freely available source repository for the Linspire operating system...Linspire has no problem with anyone using the open source code from our operating system - in fact we applaud such projects. The name Freespire, however, did create some confusion in the short time it was used...We thought it would be fun, for all of those who were looking at this project to experience a true 'Freespire', to give away a free digital copy of Linspire for a few days!"

So, yeah. Linux or not, Linspire's very... yech for those who want something more than a basic internet and word processing terminal.
03 Sep 2005, 12:03 AM
GohanX

It's always nice to have a new free option, but Fedora Core and Mandrake are always free.
03 Sep 2005, 12:04 AM
ChaoofNee

So's RedHat, yes?
03 Sep 2005, 12:17 AM
GohanX

Well not anymore. Redhat split into two different directions. Redhat now is the professional paid version, while Fedora Core is the free eternally-beta version. Things get tried out in Fedora, and what they like is put into Redhat.
03 Sep 2005, 01:39 AM
ChaoofNee

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Originally Posted by GohanX

Well not anymore. Redhat split into two different directions. Redhat now is the professional paid version, while Fedora Core is the free eternally-beta version. Things get tried out in Fedora, and what they like is put into Redhat.

Interesting. Thanks for that.
03 Sep 2005, 01:43 AM
Grave

Free Linspire? I dunno, I feel like paying for desktop linux is a stupid idea all around, unless things have changed dramatically in a couple of years. My dad bought a retail Mandrake package once, and it's not like it even came with useful documentation or anything. The same shit we could have gotten for free online would have been just as useless. I agree with those who say "Linux is only free if your time is worthless." Once I learned my way around it, I could use it alright, but to my parents, the ones using the machine, it just wasn't any good. I'm tempted to say it was better off when it had WinME on it.
03 Sep 2005, 02:17 AM
kedawa

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Originally Posted by Grave

Free Linspire? I dunno, I feel like paying for desktop linux is a stupid idea all around, unless things have changed dramatically in a couple of years. My dad bought a retail Mandrake package once, and it's not like it even came with useful documentation or anything. The same shit we could have gotten for free online would have been just as useless. I agree with those who say "Linux is only free if your time is worthless." Once I learned my way around it, I could use it alright, but to my parents, the ones using the machine, it just wasn't any good. I'm tempted to say it was better off when it had WinME on it.

My friend bought the suse retail box a while ago and it came with a huge reference manual with tons of stuff in it.
And the notion that 'Linux is only free if your time is worthless' is just flat out silly.
Distros like ubuntu and xandros are as easy to set up as any version of windows, and I've never spent a second dealing with spyware/virii on a linux system.
03 Sep 2005, 02:22 AM
ChaoofNee

I'm really interested in running linux off a second hard drive on a forthcoming computer, actually. I've heard RedHat/Fedora's the easiest to get a handle on in regards to obtaining software. Is this true?
03 Sep 2005, 02:25 AM
Grave

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Originally Posted by kedawa

Distros like ubuntu and xandros are as easy to set up as any version of windows, and I've never spent a second dealing with spyware/virii on a linux system.

I'd be somewhat interested, had I not purchased a Mac years ago and got stuck on it. I may check them out and pass the info on to my folks, though. :)

Problem is, my mother seems too stubborn to learn anything even remotely different from Windows, and she doesn't like using spyware-removing programs either, so every time I visit home I have a hell of a lot of work to do on her machine. Wish she took me up on my offer to set up a Mac mini for her.
03 Sep 2005, 02:48 AM
kedawa

You should download the live CDs for a few distros.
That way you can try it out w/o installing anything.
You can get them for PC and Mac.
I've used ubuntu live on both and it's great.

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Originally Posted by ChaoofNee

I'm really interested in running linux off a second hard drive on a forthcoming computer, actually. I've heard RedHat/Fedora's the easiest to get a handle on in regards to obtaining software. Is this true?

It's pretty easy to obtain linux software regardless, but FC/RH is said to have the most trouble free installations.

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