[MLUG] Linspire - free download for a few more days

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/02/219238&from=rss

Anonymous Coward wrote:

  Linspire is unique in that it has legally licensed things like MP3,
  Java, Flash, Windows Media, Quick Time, Real, Nvidia drivers, music
  files, etc. If you take all that away, you don't have Linspire, you have
  Ubuntu and have to be a friggin' genius and figure out how to get all
  that on your own. But of course, for this crowd (slashdot) it's not a
  big deal, but for 98% of the rest of the world, it's very important.

Interesting.  How hard is it to get those licensed products running on 
GNU/Linux (e.g., Ubuntu).  Aren't there free Linux precompiled downloads 
out there?  I would think there'd be a web page somewhere that would tell 
us how to get these things.  Does it really require "genius" to do it?

What are your opinions of Linspire?  Is it easy to install as a second OS 
with Windows?

Mike

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