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Over a year in the making, the new Linspire Five-0 delivers
the most full-featured desktop computer experience ever available on
Linux! Check out the new features below, and then take Linspire
Five-0 for a spin!
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Benefits
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Now The World's Easiest Desktop Linux!
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- Over 1,200 misc. improvements!
- Completely new, exclusive Linspire look and feel
- Drop shadows and consistent theme throughout
- Advanced, next generation CNR (Click and Run)
- Hundreds of
new software titles in the CNR
Warehouse (Myth TV, Kopete, and more...)
- Faster boot-up time
- Faster install and "First-Time Wizard"
- New All-In-One CD for running "live" from
CD or installing
- New update option for exisitng Linspire users
- Enhanced "How-To" Tutorials with voice narration
- 300+ page "No Nonsense" user manual (optional)
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The Most Expansive Hardware Support
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- New 2.6.10 Kernel
- New KDE 3.3
- New Reiser 4 "unbreakable" File System
- New X.org 6.8.2 for improved video support
- Improved sound support with real-time
mixing
- New "Supermount" for easier removable media use (CD, Floppy)
- Easy-to-use Diagnostic Reporting directly from desktop to
Linspire's engineers
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Improved Laptop Support
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- New 802.11g support
- New easy-to-use wireless control panel
- New WiFi Profiles for ease of moving to different locations
(home, office, etc.)
- New WiFi Access Point Locater
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Improved Internet Optimization
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- New built in Bittorrent support
- New "Hot Words" embedded searching
- New in-line spell checking throughout (email, browser, IM,
etc.)
- New AOL Dialer
- Enhanced Firewall for added security
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Improved support for the Home
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- New Lsongs Music Manager
- New Lphoto Photo Manager
- New RealPlayer 10
- New PhoneGaim Instant Messenger with free long-distance phone
calls
- Expanded support for file and media types (Windows Media,
Quick
Time, Flash, Java, Real, .doc, .xls, .ppt, .mp3, .PDF, etc.)
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Improved support for Schools and Businesses
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- New built-in VPN
- Improved Networking, File Sharing and Printing
- New Nvu Web Authoring
- New Lassist Suite (Reminders, MailMinder, Calendar,
Address Book)
- New OpenOffice 1.1.3
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Improved Internet Suite
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The
Linspire Internet Suite now contains one of the most advanced and
secure, yet easy-to-use suites of Internet software available for
desktop and laptop computers. Advanced Internet features deliver a
superior online experience:
- tabbed web browsing
- Hot Words for instant searching
- Intuitive calendar
- In-line spell-checking for email
- Pop-up ad blocking
and more!
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Lsongs
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Lsongs
is an all-in-one music manager built into Linspire and is ready to help
you rip your favorite music, organize it, play it, sync it to
portable music players, and burn it to your own music mix CDs. It has
everything you need to easily manage and enjoy your music collection.
You can now use Lsongs to purchase music directly from MP3tunes
for just 88 cents a song or $8.88 for a full album. The songs are free
of any digital rights management (DRM)! This means you can burn your
music to CD, add it to your portable MP3 player, use it on your other
computers, and more.
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Lphoto
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Lphoto
is a photo managment program that allows you to download, organize,
edit, save, and share your entire photo collection. It supports
connecting to hundreds of digital cameras. You can easily connect your
digital camera to your computer and import all of your pictures with a
single mouse-click.
Lphoto allows you to create animated slide shows, burn album to a CD as well as burn your album to video CD (VCD).
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PhoneGaim
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Make
calls to anyone in the world using built-in Internet phone calling
thanks to the new PhoneGaim! PhoneGaim Instant Messenger also lets you
communicate simultaneously to multiple IM accounts for AOL Instant
Messenger, MSN, Yahoo!, Messenger, ICQ, and more! Other key features
include in-line spell-checker, free voicemail to email, free PhoneGaim
to PhoneGaim calls and more!
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Complete Office Suite
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Built-into Linspire is a full-featured office software suite called
OpenOffice.org. It features word processings, speadsheet, presentation,
and drawing programs. All are file-compatible with their Microsoft
Office counterparts so you can easily read and share documents with your friends who are still on MS Windows.
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Nvu
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Nvu is
the complete WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") solution for
authoring web sites. Nvu makes creating, managing, and updating web
sites a snap. Now, anyone can create web pages and manage their web
site with no technical
expertise or knowledge of HTML. Nvu is the easiest, most powerful web
authoring system available for Linux, Mac, and Windows.
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Improved laptop features
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Linspire Five-0 is the ideal solution for anyone wanting to run Linux on
their laptop or notebook computer. We have customized this newest
version of the Linspire operating system to work well with hardware
found in a wide array of laptop computers. Linspire's new
easy-to-use wireless control panel lets you set up your wireless
connection with ease. The improved power management greatly extends the
life of
your battery. Linspire Five-0 also comes with new WiFi profiles that let
you switch between wireless connections seamlessly as well as with a
new PowerNow support and HyperThreading and new Intel Centrino support.
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Multimedia Tutorials
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Linspire Five-0 has an enhanced and expanded Tutorial Player that features a series of
tutorials designed to help even the most novice user perform a wide
range of computing tasks. The "How-To" tutorials cover everything
from simple desktop navigation, to setting up a wireless Internet connection.
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