what's up with this linspire announcement ?

PJ · 2006-04-24 22:35:48

Penguin wrote:

PJ wrote:
Seems like they are including codecs, fonts and some other stuff which often isn't offical supported in most free community-driven versions of commercial distributions.
Legally supports (or has one-click access to support): MP3, DVD, Windows Media, QuickTime, Java, Flash, Real, ATI drivers, nVidia drivers, Adobe Acrobat Reader, proprietary WiFi drivers, fonts, and so on.
http://www.freespire.org/
from http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/newss/6228/1/:
....Which is why Freespire will be released in two flavors: a completely open-source only version, which will not have any proprietary software packages, and a version that contains the legally licensed versions of proprietary software.

I hadn't read that. Thanks for the link, it explains it a lot better.

Bralkein · 2006-04-25 11:22:52

As much as I dislike the design of Linspire's distribution(s), I do think it's a pretty cool announcement. For many people it is important to be able to have easy access to all of this proprietary, yet sadly necessary stuff; and to have it available in a free distribution is just excellent. Hopefully this will prompt other free (as in beer) distros (e.g. Ubuntu, the free SUSE one, Mandriva, etc.) to do the same.

Still think Arch Linux is the best though

pressh · 2006-04-26 13:30:45

Bralkein wrote:

Still think Arch Linux is the best though

that's by default

About the announcement, not sure how they worked two years on it, as was indicated in a letter prior to the announcement. Anyhow, I don't see how this would benefit anybody but linspire users. It's a worthless announcement from a worthless distribution.

Bison · 2006-04-26 14:16:09

Oh good! another debian based distribution...

Am I the only one that despises debian?

whargoul · 2006-04-26 14:37:24

I wish that Arch was more like Linspire.

myst · 2006-04-26 15:30:17

I wish that Arch will be Arch forever. Arch is what I love in Arch. If you so want Linspire, use Linspire.

Gullible Jones · 2006-04-26 20:03:31

Ditto... What originally attracted me to Arch was its simplicity, speed, good package management, and CLI-oriented design.

lumiwa · 2006-04-26 20:24:19

Bison wrote:

Oh good! another debian based distribution...
Am I the only one that despises debian?

IMO Debian is very good distribution which I had used and I have used one week ago again but I like ARCH more.

Gullible Jones · 2006-04-26 22:09:44

Well, Debian has fairly good package management, though more cumbersome than pacman and not quite as well thought out IMHO... What gets to me is the SystemV crap, and all the unnecessary services that start up by default, and the combination of unstable CVS stuff and outdated versions.

(That last is in the Testing branch; I won't even mention Stable, because I prefer not to have every single package on my system at least a year out of date.)

Bison · 2006-04-28 15:47:56

I think apt is overly complex. I tried out debian on my girlfriends computer and it was terrible.

Arch Linux

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