Comments on: Ubuntu & Linspire – So Who Else is Keeping Tabs?

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izmir escort — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:24:33 +0000

So Ubuntu and Linspire have declared their intention to work together toward their common goal of making Linux Universal. You can read the press release here.

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sex sikiş — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:16:37 +0000

wasn’t suggesting that users should pay for Ubuntu and I recognise the fact that Linux is open source. I was trying to make the point that if users could migrate to Ubuntu and find it as easy as falling off a log, I’m sure they would be more than willing to pay. And they would probably do it a lot sooner.

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Many of us have spent the last decade or more using and dealing with the inevitable problems that Windows throws at us from time to time. We feel comfortable with it. It works right out of the box, as does your software that arrived in the post this morning.

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antalya ilaçlama — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:59:53 +0000

you pointed out all i think about this deal

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By: Duarte Molha

Duarte Molha — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:16:34 +0000

Hello
I have given up my dual boot and now only have ubuntu.

I think that linux has been for geeks for so much time, that now that it is getting to a larger audience, the geeks are scared of loosing their status!!!!

One of the major hurdles on the adoption of linux is the very difficult process of installing applications. Debian packages are great, but sometimes the software only has rpm packages or even worse you have to compile it yourself.

Yes you have a very strait forward and easy method to install using synaptic but what about software not available on the repositores?

Here is the geek way of answering this:
Ho… that is soooooo simple:
1) open console
2 type “sudo gedit /etc/atp/sources.list”
3) paste on the end of the file:
#new repository
deb ……. (assuming you already took hours looking for the link on the web)
4) Close and return to the console
5) write: “sudo apt-get update”
================
now here comes the only part that most non-geeks can do:
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6) click on menu > system >synaptic
7) click on the software you want on the list
8) click install

now was that not ssoooooooo easy!!!!

You have to understand if linux is going to become widely adopted it has to provide people with a really simple way of finding the applications they want and installing them!!!

Second point!

Yes I would want everything to be free and open source software but the world is not perfect. Yes people will want to pay and install proprietary software and they should be free to do that as well! – NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO DO IT!!!!!!!

This new deal is great for the adoption of linux as a viable alternative to windows domination and I am really glad that my OS of choice is becoming the most user friendly and most adopted linux distribuition

For all of the geeks that do not like that, there are many other distributions out there where you can regain you status. As for me I also consider myselt a bit of a geek but this time I am actualy glad I am joining the mainstream!

Best regards
Duarte Molha

By: David Seachrist

David Seachrist — Sun, 27 May 2007 19:23:04 +0000

The strategy is clear. Get Linux as an Alternative OS on a major Computer manufacturer (Dell). The sucking sound you hear is the millions of users who hate paying $200 -400 for an operating system, migrating to Linux. As long as it keeps Micosoft from killing the last vestige of competition to drive product development, can it be any worse than the trend towards “What brand of Vista are you running on your computer?”

By: RaymondB

RaymondB — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 06:06:44 +0000

I don’t get why people are so Linspire-phobic. You act like they’re the only distro out to make money (novell, red hat, mandriva, and xandros are just nice people who hand out free CDs in the park…mhhmm, ask that to someone paying for a mandriva club membership which is about twice as much as year of Linspire CNR Gold membership).

Linspire has recently cleaned up their image by making CNR basic free of charge, and soon…open source as well as starting up Freespire. If anything, this deal might help advance Ubuntu because the CNR client will pull software from Ubuntu’s already existing repositories (with the exception of commercial software like Crossover office).

While I agree synaptic is already easy enough to use, the CNR system will make it even easier for people to try Linux and not be worried about the legal liabilities of illegally installing codecs.