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Bait and Switch.

Give you Linspire for free on your PC and make you pay to download stuff
from them.  This should be disclosed in the beginning.

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 17:53, pras at cycloeastern.com wrote:
> Confession- I am a RPM/TAR ball user. I don't know dpkg or apt-get.
> 
> I friend of mine bought a $100 machine from Microcenter with Linspire on it and 
> is thrilled with the Linux tools.
> 
> He could not get his webcam working and wanted me to look at it. I tried to see if
> it had xawtv, v4l or digicam. It had none of the above. So I tried to see if I could 
> install it.
> 
> RPM tool was present, but there was no rpm database. I also found dpkg and apt-get. There
> was NO gui/text base software install tool. Everything seems be a membership based 
> download service. Even the free stuff.
> 
> I thought, what the heck and downloaded digicam tar.gz, only to notice that this did not have a 
> C compiler !
> 
> Now I am convincing my friend to go to Mandrake.
> 
> Does anyone have any experience with Linspire ?


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