Re: Linspire -> Devian ?
--- stan <stanb@panix.com> wrote:
> I just bought a rather nice little box today foe
> $199. I bought it to
> give to a middle school age youngster. The box cam
> with Linspire (AKA
> Lindows) preloaded on it. Desktop looks rather nice,
> but it's shy of
> applications. I intend to lad various tings likee
> Open Office on it.
>
> Linspire appears to be Debian derived, and the
> /etc/debian_version syas
> yesting/unstable. There are alos commented out lines
> in
> /etc/apt/sources.
>
> Would I be beter off wiping and doing a complet
> reinstall, or perhaps
> doing an apt-ge dist-upgrade?
>
> BTW it's linspire 4.5 if that matters.
If you want Debian, I would strongly suggest you to
wipe out Linspire entirely. I remember I tried one
time Linspire; there were an ad on google allowing me
to download a free (no cost) copy. This was a
nightmare: the install terminated by a message (error
nr: <somenumber>, please contact your retailer). After
having installing lilo myself to be able to boot it
anyway, I remark that it has wipe out my Mandrake
partition (I ran Mandrake at that time); although I
had choosen, install in a partition... not tried to go
further; don't want to see this product again...
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