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[sraun]

I'm currently posting from a FreespireLive CD.

It's interesting. It recognized the wireless card and audio system on my laptop. I'm currently interacting with LJ using a custom(?) version of Firefox 1.5. I've got GAIM connected to LJTalk - I see 7 of my 278 friends currently on-line, only one of them claims to be available, and I think he's actually busy at the moment.

Getting to some data on the server is being difficult - I think it's because I'm following a symlink to a partition Samba doesn't have shared. I just added the partition to my smb.conf and restarted my Samba daemons, but it's being stubborn. :-(

Oh - it works better if I use the right share name.

There's a pretty SSH client that I can use for reading e-mail and working on my server. If I actually install Freespire, I'll have to figure out how to make it display properly - I think there's a term-def problem in there somewhere.

I'm adding some tracks to LSongs - that's the Linspire MP3 player. Osmo Vanska & The Minnesota Orchesta perform Beethoven's 9th - it doesn't sound to bad, considering it's through my dinky Dell laptop speakers. I should skip to the fourth movement.

Anyone know of any Freespire/Linspire communities on LJ?

Comments

[magentamn.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to realize that I have gone from early adaptor to not so hot at tech stuff in the last ten years. I didn't really understand any of this post except the last two sentences. Yes, the last movement of the 9th is the best but it's arguably one of the finest passages of western music that there is.

[brashley46.livejournal.com]

Haven't tried Linspire/Freespire; I'm using the other fork of the split, Xandros.

Maybe we should start a Debian users' comm. ;^)

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

I don't have the faintest idea what you are talking about. In fact, it almost sounds like a clever parody of geek-speak, with just enough familiar acronyms that it almost sounds like it should make sense.

Not that it matters - I'm sure if I were the intended audience I would know what it meant. I hope you find that Freespire/Linspire community so you will have kindred souls to geek with.

[jiawen]

My Ubuntu 6.10 DVD just arrived in the mail. I plan to start installing that later tonight.

I'm currently using Mandriva, which I've been using since Mandrake 9.1. It's a good distro, but 2007 just annoys me no end. Mandriva seems to not actually worry about making things work anymore, so I'm going to try Ubuntu. If that doesn't work, I guess I'll go back to Mandriva 2006.

I don't have any experience with Linspire/Freespire, but I'm definitely interested to hear how it works.

The custom version of Firefox isn't Iceweasel by any chance, is it?

[sraun]

I was reasonably happy with Freespire. I'll probably install it on my laptop in the nearish future. I'll need to find Linux versions of a couple of programs that I use regularly - the most critical one missing right now is a version of PasswordSafe. IIRC, there's a package called Password Gorilla that should do.

Custom version of Firefox - it claims to be Browser 1.5 for Linspire based on Firefox 1.5.