Bligh

While there are many knowledgeable and helpful members here, Puppy linux has a very large and active community. When I recently posted a question on the Puppy forums, Barry K, himself responded to the question. Very similiar experience with Puppy Lighthouse. What is different at Linspire/freespire. Who is making the decisions, and where are their communication skills?
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Surely the quietness of these forums is indicitive of Linux in general. A Distro becomes popular and therefore a community builds up, another Distro comes along and people move on, unfortunately the % of Linux Users does not greatly increase year on year.

Puppy is great because it is replacing MS-DOS based Windows on older ie PI/II/III PC's, before that DSL and ZipSlack were the choices.........................

revhouse1

Part of the difference also has to do with the fact that Freespire is not really a community distro therefore there is not really the connection with the community as there is with true community distros like Puppy.

By the way, Puppy Linux is great. I have it loaded on one of my older laptops. I used DSL for a while too. But I cut my mini distro teeth on muLinux and still have it on my old 486 laptop along side of DRDos and Win3.1. Unfortunately, MuLinux is no longer under developement. The website is still up, and once in a while there's a little chatter on the email list.

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While there will always be a number of users who are cautious about upgrades and don't jump on to the next newest thing, I think all the 'spire users have been hanging out to see real direction and evidence of activity.

Lin/Freespire is a very good distro but we not seeing corporate or community progress. The Insider programme seems dead. No Betas to play with and generate excitement. So interest falls off. Frankly, I'd like to see Michael Robertson pop into the forum and show some leadership.

Patrick

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There is a lot of stuff going on right now, just we don't see it: like Freespire 3.0/Linspire 7 development. However; I do agree with you that Larry or Michael should pop in every now and then just a couple of quick lines to help keep things up here ! Especially with Dr. Jones being gone, he was like the official Stargate to Linspire headquarters hehehe

Ray

richard.a

Actually it runs magnificently on modern boxen too.

And more recent versions appear to have a problem with ealier hardware, particularly those that use the Intel chipsets from say 5 to 10 years ago, although many more cheap computers were built with AMD processors and AC97 audio chips. These will often run nicely (but not always) with the irqpoll command passed at boot time, manually in Live mode, and as part of the grub start-up string for HDD operation.

I've been exploring "as-fast-as-modern-Windows-boxes" performance using a range of customised Puppies on older computers, loosely based on a cuber-cafe in Sc_unthorpe (the name of that town has to be spelled with the underscore because the forum regards it as a bad word) in the UK, for a similar project for old people here in Australia. The sheer speed of this Slackware derivative both in installed version, and in Live version, has to be seen to be believed. And it will do all the "target user" (as coined on these forums) will ever want it to do.

I had no idea Ken had gone. I well remember when he changed jobs to work for the company, and even then we had concerns about how it would go.

Considering what Ken has done for the company, frequently under very difficult conditions, the least they could have done would have been to honour him in a Linspire Letter.

Bear in mind that as I write this post on the day the fire sale to Xandros was announced (July 3rd this side of the date line), I see the latest Linspire Letter was actually dated April 11th - meaning the company has not bothered to link to the LL email about the sale.

I find that relationships with real people has not been a particularly well-developed aspect of Lindows Inc, later to become Linspire Inc where it seemed to get worse.


Richard in Adelaide
(the city of churches)
Currently adapting PuppyLinux to old boxen that recent *nix won't run on
http://micro-hard.homelinux.net/PuppyLinux

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