RMS, Free software and the Ubuntu CDs

[Lorin Pino]

Mario Vukelic wrote:

>On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 19:18 +0200, jean gruneberg wrote:
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>>Sorry if you want to get the average joe to use linux this has to be 
>>included whatever the source, as long as Linux wants to get to the 
>>average user, putzing around with is it open is it closed is
>>detracting 
>>from the end goal and means we will never make any significant
>>inroads 
>>into the windows market. 
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>This exists. It's called Linspire, and some may be satisfied by Xandros.
>That said, there were once discussions about making Linspire's stuff
>available for a fee on Ubuntu. Don't know what happened with this.
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I tried Linspire and was very disappointed.  If you just run it as 
admin, then you have a working system, but when you add users the system 
would refuse to log in anyone (including administrator).  A dvd player 
is available, but you have to pay for it even with the more expensive 
cnr account.  I downloaded abiword, but for some reason, it didn't have 
permission to save documents to my documents folder even though OO 
could.  I think the folks at Linspire have a good start on a product to 
appeal to windows users, but as other distros it needs some work.  Just 
my experience.
~Lorin