Linspire gives away it’s Live 5.0

Linspire Inc (formerly Lindows - they got sued) has released a free version of their otherwise closed-source operating system. It’s only the LiveCD but it’s enough for a tase of what Linspire has to offer.

Linspire was one of the first corporations to begin aggressively taking normal users from Windows and offering them a Linux flavor that wouldn’t make them do anything hacker-like. The package manager that ships with Linspire is called ‘Click-N-Run’ and it does exactly what it promises. It appears to be binary packages that can be browsed and downloaded from the Linspire server and immediately installed. The abstraction that the CNR interface provides is an essential component of any entry-level linux distro in my opinion. If you can’t install the program that you need, the rest of the computer has no use to you.

Version 5.0 of the Linspire LiveCD can be downloaded (for free, legally) via bittorrent at the following link: Linspire LiveCD 5.0