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

[marccollin]

that remember me corel inux in 2000

[perpetually high]

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

[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.

[archkde]

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

[DKJones]

Even more so than Debian's website?

Hahaha!

[re:fi.64]

new, intermediate and power users

So...everyone.

[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.

[tildearrow]

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 Remastersys, as well as contribute to Amiga ecosystem development. His behavior comes off as pathological, and low effort capitalism at its finest.

The OpenMandriva group should buy the Mandriva trademark before it's too late...

[Ironmask]

Sad that some people pay attention to distros that were probably literally made in one of those Ubuntu-maker GUIs. I like (put up with?) Ubuntu, but it's pathetic how many skiddies look at it and go "me too!"

[Paradigm Shifter]

I remember Linspire... ah, in its originally incarnation (Lindows) my at-the-time local supermarket was actually selling PCs with it as the OS! That changed quickly when Microsoft dropped the hammer on the name "Lindows". That site looks terrible, though.

The only modern successor I can think of that did it quite as blatantly as Lindows did is Linuxfx - which is well-skinned enough that at first glance you could mistake it for Windows 10. Open the Start menu though and that is broken quickly enough.