Subj : Re: Linspire 4.5
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Sniper
Date : Tue Apr 19 2005 10:19 pm


-=> Angus Mcleod wrote to Chronos <=-

 AM>   Re: Linspire 4.5
 AM>   By: Chronos to MIKE POWELL on Mon Apr 18 2005 22:59:00

 >  > They also complain about the cost of a subscription to the Linspire softw
 >  > update repositories.
 >
 > Since it is a Linux environment, wouldn't all other software developed for
 > linux work also? So you wouldn't have to utilize their repositories?

 AM> I never used it, but just running a Linux kernel would not necessarily
 AM> mean that system libraries, etc, were in directories with the usual
 AM> names, and so forth.

 AM> What I'm saying is that it would be possible for them to deliberately
 AM> mess with the directory tree and file names, etc, to make it very hard
 AM> for "regular" packages to run.  Of course, I have no idea if they *did*
 AM> in fact, do anything like that...


they do.  its based off Debian, but, they bastardize many of the libraries.

You can use apt-get, but you have to do some mega configuration for it to work.



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