Disclaimer: I never met anyone from either company, so here are only my views on the matter. I hear the former CEO of Linspire said it’s going to ruin the company, because the shares will become worthless. While I’m no expert on shares etc. and since I’ve never been a CEO, the guy’s probably right about this. But for us users, what we’re going to see, is a new direction for the not-so-popular Click ‘n’ Run and maybe even a new, merged distribution?
Click ‘n’ Run. Currently, what Linspire has done with Click ‘n’ Run, isn’t really impressive. I’ve got my APT, and so do Ubuntu users and all the other distros already have their package management systems. No distro is going to adopt Click ‘n’ Run, the organization around the distro wants to be able to control all aspects of it, right? That means Linspire had to do all the work for a something I’ve never seen anyone use. Since Click ‘n’ run is perhaps one of the most interesting assets of Linspire,maybe the guys at Xandros have an idea about what they’re going to d with it. hey must have a lot of experience, after all they are one of the oldest Linux distro-based businesses.
Distro. Face it, at the moment we’re witnessing the rise of Ubuntu, followed by cool distros such as Fedora, Debian, SuSe Linux, Mandriva and others. The last time Iv’e seen anyone use Linspire is when it was still called Lindows and Xandros got help from the huge sales of the Eee PC. The Xandros OS is a horrible show of what Linux could do, it actually makes peopel turn away and choose the nicer-looking XP, even though everyone knows Linux could look and perform much better. Putting this aside, I think that a merged distro would be in order to challenge the other major distributions and finally secure a good place for Xandros + Linspire in the top 5. Is it doable? I don’t know. But if they don’t do something real fast, the others are going to run them over and everybody will forget Xandros or Linspire ever existed…
We need something USEFUL and INNOVATIVE! TRY HARDER!
(and good luck)
July 8th, 2008 at 11:35
[...] Linux?” He points to this article. It was either that or closing down then. Here is why Xandros will merely inherit Linspire’s problems (too negatives don’t make a positive). The Xandros OS is a horrible show of what Linux could [...]
July 8th, 2008 at 14:24
not sure why you say 2 negatives, do u think really think that asus piked xandros to ship on their new breakthrough pc by flipping a coin? nah, doubt it. i have a eeepc and the modified version of xandros is a perfect compliment for this device, yep i could change it - but whats the point, i use this pc for portability, and wireless browsing and email. maybe a little wp here and there, i have other machines for full fledged processing. i remember when microsoft had a plan in the original windows ce days to put skinny down nt as a windows ce replacement, dumb. whats the point. u can make a hurcluean effort to get solaris to run on an old 80286, so what. all the crap i here about asus sometimes, yet the distro xandros works wonderfully for the purpose it was designed. remember asus was the customer and apparently they r happy. in a growing market someone has to lead, and that includes gobbling up the injured. i like it.
July 14th, 2008 at 03:49
I honestly don’t see what good this does for either party. IMO, neither of them were very good distros anyway. Oh well; we’ll watch and see what happens.