Comments on: Linspire to be based on Kubuntu! http://www.harshj.com/2007/03/15/linspire-to-be-based-on-kubuntu/ Memoirs of a QWERTY Keyboard Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:18:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: saurabh.sauron http://www.harshj.com/2007/03/15/linspire-to-be-based-on-kubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-1134 saurabh.sauron Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:51:06 +0000 http://www.harshj.com/2007/03/15/linspire-to-be-based-on-kubuntu/#comment-1134 I think that Windows Clones are losing their popularity because of ubuntu. this deal is to salvage some market, which linspire has already lost. freespire didnt work out well enough. i think linspire must remove it's licensing for it to work among newbies. who would pay as much as windows to get windows like functionality??? I think that Windows Clones are losing their popularity because of ubuntu. this deal is to salvage some market, which linspire has already lost. freespire didnt work out well enough. i think linspire must remove it’s licensing for it to work among newbies. who would pay as much as windows to get windows like functionality???

]]> By: Anurag Bhandari http://www.harshj.com/2007/03/15/linspire-to-be-based-on-kubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-1028 Anurag Bhandari Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:09:12 +0000 http://www.harshj.com/2007/03/15/linspire-to-be-based-on-kubuntu/#comment-1028 Canonical signed the deal of integrating <b>CNR (Click 'N' Run)</b> to the Ubuntu archive a long ago (about 2-3 months). But before that, I knew that this would happen some day. Linspire and it's free version : Freespire lacked very much in the features that give a proper feel of Linux from the very beginning. So, a scenario like this one was expected. Some bigger distribution had to take over their technology and that distro is <b>Ubuntu</b>. ;) Canonical signed the deal of integrating CNR (Click ‘N’ Run) to the Ubuntu archive a long ago (about 2-3 months).

But before that, I knew that this would happen some day. Linspire and it’s free version : Freespire lacked very much in the features that give a proper feel of Linux from the very beginning.
So, a scenario like this one was expected. Some bigger distribution had to take over their technology and that distro is Ubuntu. ;)

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