Linspire 10 Beta Released - Claims To Be #1 Linux Distro For New/Intermediate/Power Users

[eidolon]

Slow news day?

This Linspire isn't exactly a direct descendant of the Linspire of old; this is really Linspire in name only (i.e. he purchased the trademarks), just like his previous distro was Black Lab Linux in name only (he purchased the trademarks from Fixstars).

He also acquired the Xandros and Dreamlinux trademarks. Maybe he'll snap up Yoper's trademarks as well, or maybe White Box, Slamd64, or one of the many other distributions that have fallen by the wayside over the decades. Hey, the Mandriva, Conectiva, and Lycoris trademarks might be available for purchase. That might put OpenMandriva in awkward position if someone is marketing a "Mandriva Linux" Ubuntu derivative.

The current Linspire is just PC/OS, OS4 Linux, Amiga OpenLinux (that one died a crib death, as he hadn't acquired rights to the Amiga branding), and Black Lab Linux by yet a different name. At one time he was also going to release a distro named PC-UX (I suspect he ran into trademark issues), and a distribution named Ami/LX.

This is the same guy who threatened Ladislav Bodnar (#55), said he was going to continue development of Remastersys, as well as contribute to Amiga ecosystem development. His behavior comes off as pathological, and low effort capitalism at its finest.

[re:fi.64]

new, intermediate and power users

So...everyone.

[DKJones]

Even more so than Debian's website?

Hahaha!

[archkde]

Native UEFI booting support as a new feature in 2020, seriously?

[onicsis]

You are all wrong . This distro is not meant to compete with Linux. If they can get to steal some Windows users why not? And also in the same tame, make some money best proof that Linux it's profitable . Kudos to them.

[perpetually high]

Finally, a distro we can all agree to hate. Ubuntu’s held the title for far too long. Suck it, Linspire!

[marccollin]

that remember me corel inux in 2000

[Vistaus]

on the other side, their website is actually really really old-fashioned and they need to fix it, IMHO.

Even more so than Debian's website?

[Slartifartblast]

This really looks like one guy's pet project, from what I see on that site.

Yup, every expense spared too by hosting the site on Blogger while expecting you to cough up cash.

[NateHubbard]

"Along with updated branding and design we have made significant advancements that once again proves - if there was ever any doubt - Linspire is the number one Linux distribution for new, intermediate and power users."

Nope, there was never any doubt at all.

This really looks like one guy's pet project, from what I see on that site.