Distro review: The four-1-1 on Linspire Five-0 (NewsForge)

[Posted March 31, 2005 by cook]

NewsForge reviews the Linspire Five-0 distribution. "Linspire includes very little software with the base distribution, at least in comparison to other popular desktop distros. It doesn't come with a graphics editing program, a dedicated FTP client, or a DVD player. If you want to be able to have that kind of functionality without using the command line to work around it, you'll have to pay U.S. $50 per year for a CNR membership. In fact, it often seems that Linspire as a distribution is not so much meant to be an operating system, but is intended as a vehicle for the CNR software subscription."