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But doesn't it come with a free 1 or 1/2 year click-n-run membership? 
I'm pretty sure every PC I've seen with it preinstalled does.

Michael
 
> 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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