__/ [ Linonut ] on Monday 03 July 2006 12:30 \__
> After takin' a swig o' grog, BearItAll belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> Anyway, I probably would have gone for Suse except that PC World only had
>> very old versions on their shelves and my own copy wasn't available. So
>> instead after looking at distrowatch for a while I had my first go with
>> Linspire.
>
> Nick Petreley (who's a bit of an asshole) had a /var/opinion column in
> Linux Journal recently where he praised the more free offshoot of
> Linspire, "Freespire".
It would good to discover that, over time, Freespire if not just a half-baked
extraction, despite all the noise and criticism. It would be reassuring to
see that even 'commercial Linux' gives something in return. But it appears
as though Freespire is crippled Linspire morelike... at least has contains
reusable 'bits'....
> Maybe it takes more work to configure, though, in which case they should
> call it "Perspire".
>
> "Developers! Developers! Developers!" -- Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft
I think "Developers" should be repeated 14 times to better express the extent
of the dementia.
Best wishes,
Roy
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