MoHiT GuLeRiA <smsmohit@...> wrote:
Dear Friends,
In last two meets we all have been discussing various distributions. Most of us agreed that Ubuntu is better for the desktops and CentOS for running servers. I think Ubuntu and its derivatives like Kbuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu are good for people who have some interest and knowledge of Linux. To motivate and make someone use Linux we need more easy and pre customized version. Something like Xandros or Linspire (ex Lindows) which is more similar to MS-Windows, mainly XP and where it is more easy to install additional softwares. But both of them come for a price and are not FREE (free as in beer or free as in speech, i still have to understand the lingo). It won't be easy to convince someone not to buy "XP Starter Edition" (costs $30 - $40) instead of Xandros or Linspire which come at double the price for basic computing.
Recently I came across a an article comparing:
Linspire Five-0
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED 10) and
Xandros Business Desktop Linux.
I agree with them. Looking at Linspire I found that they have recently launched FREESPIRE its open source/free derivative. Linspire/Lindows have been in this domain since long and have the experience to give a stable distro. It looks good, I will install it soon and hope that Linspire wouldn't have done the same with it i.e. what RedHat did to Fedora. So friends lets investigate/research more into it, if promoting Linux is one of the objectives of our group. And pls. update the group about its pros and cons.
Thanking you
With warm regards
Mohit Guleria
Ref:
http://www.crn.com/sections/ =breakingnews/ dailyarchives. jhtml?articleId= 193700673&pgno=1&queryText
http://wiki.freespire. org/index. php/Quick_ Tour_of_Freespir e
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