[ale] Linspire experience and problems

[Christopher Fowler]

You have to haev a per year membership to be able to download software
from their repository.  

Bait and Switch.

Give you Linspire for free on your PC and make you pay to download stuff
from them.  This should be disclosed in the beginning.

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 17:53, pras at cycloeastern.com wrote:
> Confession- I am a RPM/TAR ball user. I don't know dpkg or apt-get.
> 
> I friend of mine bought a $100 machine from Microcenter with Linspire on it and 
> is thrilled with the Linux tools.
> 
> He could not get his webcam working and wanted me to look at it. I tried to see if
> it had xawtv, v4l or digicam. It had none of the above. So I tried to see if I could 
> install it.
> 
> RPM tool was present, but there was no rpm database. I also found dpkg and apt-get. There
> was NO gui/text base software install tool. Everything seems be a membership based 
> download service. Even the free stuff.
> 
> I thought, what the heck and downloaded digicam tar.gz, only to notice that this did not have a 
> C compiler !
> 
> Now I am convincing my friend to go to Mandrake.
> 
> Does anyone have any experience with Linspire ?