[Cialug] lin4win VS Linspire for non linux user

[Nathan C. Smith]

Funny you should ask - I got an el-cheapo machine yesterday with Linspire on
it and I was very impressed by Linspire's capabilities.  It recognized a USB
wireless interface, was zippy and stable.  I would consider installing it
for my mother as long as she wasn't going to ask to run Quicken.

It's VERY consumer oriented - there was no SSH on it!  but their click'n'run
feature (available by subscription) has several available.  It also acts a
lot like an OS available from a large Pacific Northwest software company.

I think there is some kind of stigma attached to Linspire - maybe because it
tries to emulate the above-mentioned OS instead of being great on its own,
but I have to believe they have some very talented people at work developing
to make everything interoperate so slick.  In fact, I would go so far to say
there are Wal-Mart shades of Mac-OS X in an XP interface on linux kind of
way.

-Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: John Roach [mailto:jroach@eastersealsia.org] 
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 8:42 AM
To: cialug@cialug.org
Subject: [Cialug] lin4win VS Linspire for non linux user


Has anyone hgad any experiance with either of these? 
John Roach 
Information Technology 
Easter Seals Iowa 
(515) 274-1529 Ext. 276 
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