Linspire Five - 0 RELEASED!

[snedman]

I don't do any of my DVD ripping and encoding with Linspire or use WINE to emulate for that. I stick strictly with WIN XP for that. Its much easier. To be honest I haven't tried under Linspire to do that, because of my familiarity and ease of doing it under windows. But, I will play with it tonight or tomorrow under Linspire and see what works.

Snedman

 

[JohnDoh]

Linspire 5.0 is free via bittorrent (and legal), Linspire hosts the tracker for the torrent

http://www.torrentreactor.net/view.php?id=5063769

I tried it, didnt like it... prefer ELX as of right now
and.. im not sure but I think linux ext3 file system supports large files fine, plus the good distros can read (not write) your Windows NTFS paritions/drives fine

So you can keep your dvd iso's and such on a NTFS and just play them from there in Linux

 

[MrNutz]

Now it's free with a CNR Subscription!

 

[Byte]

I tried Linspire on a semp 2200 with 1GB of ram and its pretty slow. it boots slower than my bloated winxp too, gee.

 

[Praxis]

I haven't tried Linspire 5.0 yet, but I gave 4.5 a whirl. It didn't seem that wonderful to me, though it certainly beat Fedora/Redhat with a stick.

Actually, my favorite distro these days is Mepis (http://www.mepis.org/). Free download, it comes as a live CD which you can install to your hard drive, if desired. It comes with Samba working out of the box, and support for writing to NTFS partitions. It is fast and easy and based on Debian with a KDE desktop environment.

For a commercial, easy distro give Xandros a try. You can download the open circulation Bittorrent version for free. Vectorlinux works well with older hardware. I like KDE, so I use the 5.0 Soho version on my Pentium Pro 200 MHz with 128 MB of RAM, and while it is slow, it will run circles around Windows 2000 on that hardware. But if you install the XFce 4.3 version it is actually very snappy on old hardware. Mandrake & Suse are OK, but requires fast hardware. And frankly, I find them both at least as buggy as many of the smaller distros.

 

[Granolith Surfer]

"For a commercial, easy distro give Xandros a try"
Am doing that now. Seems to be be pretty good so far plus updates are one click if you get them from xandros.