Alfonso_Chavez at cargill.com wrote: > They settled for $25 million. I think. > > Linspire might be making Linux pretty and easier to configure, > but they're also doing other (BAD) things, like having the > default user be the 'root' user. > > Alfonso Yep! My impression when I tried it about a year ago was that they had some good ideas re: making a desktop for a non-technical user but that they had negated a lot of Linux advantages where not necessary. FWIW I have been playing with Xandros the last few months and I think they have done a better job of 'improving' the joe-user useability without the drawbacks that Linspire imposed. (definitely not the best distro for a developer, etc) What both of them have that I think may be the biggest thing is the ease of software installation. While not terribly difficult for some folks the whole rpm/deb (or god forbid compiling it yourself) is just not comfortable to the majority of users. Pat _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list