I have finally got through the purchase process, but when I click d/l, either bit torrent or linspire, after the proceed with download button, it just routes me back to My Applications screen. I've been going around in circles all night. What am I doing wrong?
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WOW I had really no problems at all getting this. I just kept going back and forth with the pages till I got all the way through. I am now bitting it and going to have it in less then an hour acording to what it is telling me. I almost bought the $10 one from outpost few weeks ago glad I didnt do it cus now its free!
Thanks OP took me less then 5 minutes for me to get this. If you get the warning page just back page and click the link again right away and just keep doing this all the way through. It worked for me
Thanks OP took me less then 5 minutes for me to get this. If you get the warning page just back page and click the link again right away and just keep doing this all the way through. It worked for me
installed linspire and it inspired me to get back into the whole linux thing (i installed linux way back about 4 yrs ago, most command line at the time, the GUI's weren't so good back then).
now i'm downloading Fedora, 10 hrs so far and i've only gotten 2 gb, the total is like 2.5 gbs.
wondering if i should bother with fedora.
now i'm downloading Fedora, 10 hrs so far and i've only gotten 2 gb, the total is like 2.5 gbs.
wondering if i should bother with fedora.
Thanx OP, I woke up in the after noon and bittorenet had finished it up, it took it 6 hours, well I burned it, and tested it with an old lappy I had collecting dust on the shelf, and It installed smoothly on that PIII 450mhz Armada with 128MB ram, I am impressed, and I am glad that Linspire finally decided to remind the users to setup an admin ( root) password, that will decrease the critisizim they had quiet good, I didn't notice any extremeley major improvements over the 4.5Linspire, but some things here and there , but hey it was free the same way I got free Linspire 4.5 so I can feel good about not enjoying it too much, again Thanx op
Thanks for the post. I am running Linspire from the CD as I post this. I cant believe how easily and smoothly this runs. It really quite cool. Thanks again!
Originally posted by: The Linuxator
Thanx OP, I woke up in the after noon and bittorenet had finished it up, it took it 6 hours, well I burned it, and tested it with an old lappy I had collecting dust on the shelf, and It installed smoothly on that PIII 450mhz Armada with 128MB ram, I am impressed, and I am glad that Linspire finally decided to remind the users to setup an admin ( root) password, that will decrease the critisizim they had quiet good, I didn't notice any extremeley major improvements over the 4.5Linspire, but some things here and there , but hey it was free the same way I got free Linspire 4.5 so I can feel good about not enjoying it too much, again Thanx op
Funny, I have an old armada 7800 collecting dust in a corner as well, tried to install Linspire, but it won't install on it. Actually the only thing I can install is Unbunto but the video looks bad. It only has 64 MBs of ram though, maybe that is part of the problem.
I am a Linix distro uhhhh, "tester". I have tried many available distros fairly recently on three AMD64 939s setups, looking for a distro that installs and leaves a clean, organized desktop, easy to use for my wife so she can get off the Micro$oft merry-go-round. Next is a new Dual Opteron box ready to go!!
I did finally get Linspire downloaded. If the download is going REAL slow, as mine did you need to go into your router and/or firewall and open up some ports. I didn't get squat for speed on a 3Mps connection. I opened some ports and speed quickly ramped up to a max of 375Kps download. Look at the docs, I think the ports needed for bittornado started at 6881. I changed the router too. I tried to download SUSE 10 to test out the torrent and after 24hrs I only was getting 10-30k down, but more than that up for others. I gave up on it. I am warnig you bittornado will slow your PC to a crawl. I left it run for 24hrs after my download finished to help others and this old box crawled.
My VERY brief look of Linspre was ok so far, not too bloated, looks like windows, but it reminded you that it is NOT free with yearly Click and Run update fees. If you have a PC to do a clean install, Linspire is very easy to install. Xandros seemed ok, but had $$$ ads everywhere, no thanks. I will donate/pay something for the version I select, but I want to try them and decide on my own first.
So far, I recommend two Linux distros. Ubuntu Hoary installs very clean and works well, IF you are willing to tweak and apt-get needed pieces. For example, I added Thunderbird and got Tunderbird imported files from Outlook Express and it worked well but took some work. Ubuntu works well, and I have it almost 100% the way I want it, but I recently got a few flakey video issues, grrrr. It was ok afteards though. I really wish Ubuntu could get the AMD64 64bit version would set up as well as the 32bit. The 64bit needs a few apps like flash so web pages look nice, etc for the family. Mepis is currently my other choice (32-bit), it can run form the CD or install on the hard disk and is also fairly fast too. It comes set up with good software, but I feel the KDE menues and buttons are not as well organized as Ubuntu's Gnome setup. I'd tweak KDE a little bit for home/family use. There are other "smaller" distros for older PCs too if you spen some time and look around, like on distrowatch.com.
I did finally get Linspire downloaded. If the download is going REAL slow, as mine did you need to go into your router and/or firewall and open up some ports. I didn't get squat for speed on a 3Mps connection. I opened some ports and speed quickly ramped up to a max of 375Kps download. Look at the docs, I think the ports needed for bittornado started at 6881. I changed the router too. I tried to download SUSE 10 to test out the torrent and after 24hrs I only was getting 10-30k down, but more than that up for others. I gave up on it. I am warnig you bittornado will slow your PC to a crawl. I left it run for 24hrs after my download finished to help others and this old box crawled.
My VERY brief look of Linspre was ok so far, not too bloated, looks like windows, but it reminded you that it is NOT free with yearly Click and Run update fees. If you have a PC to do a clean install, Linspire is very easy to install. Xandros seemed ok, but had $$$ ads everywhere, no thanks. I will donate/pay something for the version I select, but I want to try them and decide on my own first.
So far, I recommend two Linux distros. Ubuntu Hoary installs very clean and works well, IF you are willing to tweak and apt-get needed pieces. For example, I added Thunderbird and got Tunderbird imported files from Outlook Express and it worked well but took some work. Ubuntu works well, and I have it almost 100% the way I want it, but I recently got a few flakey video issues, grrrr. It was ok afteards though. I really wish Ubuntu could get the AMD64 64bit version would set up as well as the 32bit. The 64bit needs a few apps like flash so web pages look nice, etc for the family. Mepis is currently my other choice (32-bit), it can run form the CD or install on the hard disk and is also fairly fast too. It comes set up with good software, but I feel the KDE menues and buttons are not as well organized as Ubuntu's Gnome setup. I'd tweak KDE a little bit for home/family use. There are other "smaller" distros for older PCs too if you spen some time and look around, like on distrowatch.com.
Good news for those who waited.
If you download now using bittorrent, the download speed is up to 80kbs.
I got it the first day and thought about waiting, so that the number of seeds and peers will increase and your download size will increase with that too.
So you can know use bittorrent and don't have to wait for the 800 other people that are in line at the website.
PS: I'm using Asureus, I don't know if there is any difference when you use other bittorrent program.
If you download now using bittorrent, the download speed is up to 80kbs.
I got it the first day and thought about waiting, so that the number of seeds and peers will increase and your download size will increase with that too.
So you can know use bittorrent and don't have to wait for the 800 other people that are in line at the website.
PS: I'm using Asureus, I don't know if there is any difference when you use other bittorrent program.
Don't forget to download software from you free aisle: http://www.linspire.com/products_cnr_whatis.php?tab=freeaisle
The distros & LiveCD's I've tried in the last month or so are:
I'd agree that Ubuntu is nice, but does need some video work done. It did some crazy stuff on a laptop I installed it on this past weekend. Another you may want to check out is Mepis. It's not too bad, and has been the only one so far to get my wireless NIC working without any manual intervention.
Linspire is ok, but even for the Linux newbie I don't think it's any better than say Ubuntu, Mepis, or Xandros.
CNR is 49.00 a year , not 19.00 a year. Also, the full membership is 99.00 a year. Another distro i would seriously consider if youre looking at Linspire is the upcoming fall release of MAANDRIVA> Its supposed to be a marriage of MAndrake and LYcoris Desktop LX.Very interesting to check out this distro when it becomes available. For now, i think Simply Mepis is my choice.
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