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1. Comment - Linspire Goes Five-0

   (Mar 21, 2005 - 11:45 PM)

   I played with Linspire 5.0 for few hours this weekend. It's incredibly beautiful and very user-friendly. In my opinion it looks and feels superior to any of the Windows line. 5.0 installed in 24 minutes, and I was online surfing right away. My gyration wireless keyboard and mouse worked through the install, and didn't jitter (as most other Linux disros have) once installed. Every application you need for everyday surfing, listening to music, watching videos, uploading images from cameras, printing, scanning, etcetera is there and works great. My only gripe is that with my AMD Athalon 1800 + 512mb ram, it was irritatingly slow. I'm no Linux geek, so I'm merely guessing that the kernel is optimized for the average Intel system, and not for my Athalon?? Or it could be that, as some reviewers point out, Debian based distros tend to run slower. I don't know, and I'm not I prepared to immerse myself in Linux system files to figure out how to optimize it for my machine. --not yet anyways..
   
   But, if 5.0 were faster, I would switch to linspire as of right now. And without reservation I recommend everyone to try it. You never know, it might be fast on your machine.
   
   If only slow on my machine, the release of 5.0 could be the beginning step of mass migration to another operating system..along the lines of the current migration from IE to Firefox...