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Linspire Five.0 CNR Edition | 
| From: Linspire, Inc.
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $14.00
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 2857
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Linux
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Linux
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8.1 x 2.1
MPN: csxxxbldn5cnr
Model: CSXXXRESXOOOFF
UPC: 892222000513
EAN: 0892222000513
ASIN: B0007XYRUY
Release Date: February 15, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: New factory sealed in box, shipped within 1 business day, emailed confirmation
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| Features:
| • | Advanced and secure Linspire Internet Suite, with tabbed Web browsing, Hot Word searching, in-line spellchecking and pop-up blockers | | • | Touch up the family photos with Lphoto, enjoy your favorite music with Lsongs | | • | The OpenOffice.org suite features powerful word processing, speadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs | | • | Work with Nvu, a full Web authoring solution | | • | Make free Web-based phone calls worlwide with the PhoneGaim utility |
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Product Description
Linspire CNR Edition is a full-featured computer operating system. It provides a stable, virus-free computing experience, that's incredibly easy-to-use. Use Linspire to do things on the Web, create and share documents, work with graphics, play music, organize digital photos, view rich multimedia files and easily connect to networks and peripherals. The CNR Edition includes a one-year subscription which provides access to the Linspire CNR Warehouse. Includes 1-year subscription to the CNR Service - an online library of over 2,000 programs Plug & Play ready - Plug in all your USB or Firewire devices, they'll be recognized in seconds - from scanners to digital cameras Add a printer more easily than ever with the Printer Wizard, while Easy Networking lets you read, write, share, and browse your network with ease System Requirements - 800MHz PC, 128MB RAM, 4GB free HDD space, SVGA or higher monitor, CD/DVD drive, Internet/LAN connectivity
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| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
 The easiest Linux system I've ever used August 6, 2005
Kendall (San Diego, CA)
23 out of 26 found this review helpful
I read some of the negative reviews by other people here but decided to try it out for myself. I was really glad that I did! These guys must be Linux geeks or Ph.D. students who like running complicated Linux versions. I tried Mandriva and Xandros and Fedora Core and I have to say that they were a nightmare to try to setup.
I popped the Linspire CD into the drive. It installed in about 10 minutes and detected all of my hardware without any trouble. Within about 5 minutes I was up and surfing the web! My broadband Cox cable connection was detected automatically and set itself up. I decided to check out the CNR Warehouse Membership to see if I would be interested.
You can sign up for a free test drive of the software at Linspire's web site and it doesn't cost a dime. After I did the free trial I decided to go with their "full trial" of Click and Run. I gave them my credit card info and they gave me like 15 days to check it out with no obligation. In the end, I decided to sign up for the $20 a year Click and Run Warehouse Membership. They offer two different levels depending on what you want:
1. A $49.95 / yr. plan
2. A $19.95 / yr. plan
The $20 a year plan was perfect for me! I was able to browse for programs that I wanted by category (Audio & MP3, Business & Finance, etc..) and click a button and it installed with no hassles, no questions, no troubles at all. It tried installing programs with Mandriva and Fedora but it was ridiculous. I kept getting errors and it kept failing. I tried to figure out what was going wrong but, I gave up after awhile.
Linux is hard. No matter what these nerds say it's not as easy as they make it sound. I've never been able to just install something on Linux or get it to work correctly -- until I tried Linspire. I recommend this version of Linux to anyone who is looking to get away from Billy Boy and MicroSuck. I recommend that you try other versions of Linux first. Then.... try Linspire. Test out the Click and Run Warehouse and you will see what I mean! I am more than willing to pay someone to help make Linux easier for me to use. I am running Linspire on all 3 of the computers in my house now and I can share files and programs between all of them without any problems.
Thank you to Linspire for finally making a version of Linux for the rest of us!
Even MSNBC agrees Linspire is a wonderful OS! April 15, 2005
K. Carmony (So. Cal, United States)
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
I use Linspire every day and love it, so I'm a bit partial. So, I thought I'd just post a few of the comments made by Gary Krakow of MSNBC:
* I don't always get excited about what I'm testing. Products can be good but still wind up leaving me flat. That's especially true of a product I've tested a number of times in the past. Incremental upgrades never make my heart skip a beat. Except for this upgrade: Linspire 5.0.
* Linspire calls their product the world's easiest desktop Linux. I cannot disagree. Of the different flavors of Linux that I've tried in the recent past, Linspire is, hands down, the easiest to install, configure and use.
* I've found no such problems with Linspire 5.0. It takes the operating system to new heights.
* The company calls the OS `5-0', like `Hawaii 5-0'. The people at Linspire are trying to convey the fact that their new software is hip. They really don't need slick phrases to do that - all they have to do is get it in people's hands and let the word of mouth spread.
* I was happy to find that everything worked out of the box. Picture, sound, everything. What really amazed me was that Linspire 5-0 not only knew I had a Wi-Fi card in my laptop, but it had it working before I told it the name of my wireless network. This is a first for any Linux distribution I've ever played with.
* During the test period, 5-0 has behaved wonderfully. Even on my older laptop, Linspire is speedy and solid.
* Linspire is becoming a very good, very slick operating system for PCs....Linspire 5-0 is quite capable of handling many of your computing needs. It would be my first choice among the many brands of Linux for non-power users.
To read his full review, visit http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7490041
 Know what your getting June 22, 2005
jtinsa (San Antonio, TX)
13 out of 18 found this review helpful
Let me first say that the reviews about this distribution easily loading are true. It was up and running in about 10 minutes with no errors and every component recognized. It is also the closest to the Windows experience that I have seen so far, being a previous user of Suse and Redhat. However, this is where the trouble begins:
Much of the software that comes with the other distributions is not present here. Instead, Linspire will guide you to the online software warehouse where you can download "thousands" of software programs. This sounded great. But when you get there, they politely ask for another $49 as an annual fee. I grudgingly paid this expecting to have open access to the latest and greatest programs. I couldn't believe my eyes when I started scrolling through them. The majority of the programs are the same ones most distributions put on disk or just let you download for free on linux websites. Every now and then I came by a program I really did want, such as virus software, only to find out that you still have to pay for it, just at a "member" rate. Give me a break!. Even updating the system will guide you to this warehouse where you have to pay more money. Also, there is only the KDE interface, whereas usually you get a choice between KDE, Windowmaker, Xwindow and others.
In Addition, even though there are tutorials, there is no documentation on how to use Linux that comes with the program. Other distributions, such as Suse, at least sent some books on the basics of Linux that you could reference. Here, you receive a small instruction pamphlet guiding you to go straight to the online software warehouse.
In the end, Linspire seems to want to remove any idea of the opensource concept. It took me forever just to find a Linux terminal to type in commands. It really feels like the freedom that comes with using a Linux distribution is missing here. You pay $99 for a system without the Linux, and then have to pay $49 more to get the basic Linux programs. Bill Gates would be proud.
Update 08/01/05 - Uninstalling - Well, turns out that this version should have come with the 1 year software warehouse subscription. However, everytime I go the CNR site, it wanted me to pay the subscription price. CNR never recognized or allowed me to enter any information showing that I bought the CNR edition. Everytime I tried to get help I would get sent back to the same software warehouse site where I already had to pay to get in. I am uninstalling and just calling this one a learning experience. If you want to experience the benefits of a linux distro then buy a real one. This is a companys attempt to make money off the growing popularity of Linux and nothing more.
Why are you paying for free software?? August 17, 2005
G. Maxwell (Pennsylvania)
11 out of 19 found this review helpful
Linspire had a great idea: to bring Linux to the masses who are tired of the OS from Redmond. Great...that'll work. But the way in which Linspire has tried to achieve this is sadly lacking.
I used a prior version and Linspire hasn't changed the way they run the business. Though the set up may take around 10 minutes, the Click-n-Run warehouse is where I have a beef.
Click-n-Run is, essentially, a "warehouse" where all of the programs a person would want are right there waiting for you. But as any user of Debian (the distro that Linspire is based on) will tell you, you can apt-get to a repository and get these programs for free.
So why would anyone want to pay for a nice interface to get programs that for all intents and purposes are F-R-E-E?
This distro is good for newbies who need a lot of hand holding though as they learn about F/OSS software, they will be a little disppointed that they spent a lot of money when they did not need to.
For the complete neophyte, Linspire has a place as an introduction and the CNR warehouse may be necessary. But it is a shame to pay the price of admission when these programs are already on the net for free.
Buy this if you are really "new and have no clue" but as soon as you get your "Linux legs" underneath of you, get a real distro like Debian or Slackware or their easier counterparts, Ubuntu and Arch Linux.
 Linspire? Use Ubuntu instead. January 25, 2006
Attiladehun (South of Chicago)
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
Linspire takes a free (as in beer and as in speech) Linux distribution known as Debian, and then charges for the "service" of downloading software from a repository that is about 1/7th the size of the Debian repositories. If you wish ease of use, and adhere to the Debian ideal, get yourself a free-of-charge copy of Ubuntu courtesy of http://shipit.ubuntu.com, and then access the Ubuntu and Debian archives WITHOUT having to subscribe to anything.
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