Tuesday, February 28, 2006

I'm Sold

I am now going to convert my laptop at home to Linspire. It is the world's easiest Linux Deskop system. I have been playing around with it more and more at work and I am sold. Not only is it an inexpensive OS, but it has pretty much everything that you would need for every day home use.

Let's look at some of the features that are listed from the website-


Experience tabbed-browsing

Advanced & Secure Internet Suite
Email, Internet, instant messaging, and more! The Linspire Internet Suite includes one of the most advanced, secure and easy-to-use Internet browsers available for desktop and laptop computers.

Features include tabbed web browsing, Hot Words, in-line spell checking, and pop-up ad blocking. And Linspire is compatible with QuickTime, Windows media, Flash, and Java and more!


OpenOffice in Action

Complete Office Suite
Linspire comes with a complete office suite for word processing, spreadsheets, drawings and slide presentations. And all the programs are file-compatible with their Microsoft Office counterparts (.doc, .xls and .ppt), so you can easily read and share documents with people using Microsoft Windows.


Chat with Friends

Instant Messaging
Multi-platform Instant Messenger lets you communicate simultaneously on multiple IM accounts - AOL Instant Messenger, MSN, Yahoo!, Messenger, ICQ, and more!


Listen to your favorite music

Digital Music
Download and manage your favorite tunes with Lsongs, an all-in-one music manager built into Linspire. Burn and rip your favorite music. Organize it, play it, and sync it to portable music players. You can also purchase music free of any digital rights management (DRM) directly from MP3Tunes for just 88 cents a song or $8.88 for a full album!


Touch up family pictures

Digital Photos
Lphoto is a pre-installed photo managment program that allows you to download, organize, edit, and share your entire photo collection. Easily connect your digital camera to your computer and import all of your pictures with a single mouse-click. You can even create animated slide shows and burn albums to CD or video CD (VCD)!

Advanced Wireless Capability
Linspire supports the latest WiFi networking technology (802.11 B/G). Customizable network profiles and a WiFi access point locator let you effortlessly shift between office, home, and other networks.

Plug and Play Ready
Connect digital cameras, scanners, MP3 players and more. Linspire instantly recognizes USB and Firewire devices.

Web Publishing Tools
Linspire includes Nvu, a powerful, easy-to-use web design program that is the open-source equivalent to Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver. Nvu makes creating, managing, and updating web sites a snap. Now, anyone can create web pages, even those with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.

Multimedia Tutorials
Linspire now has an expanded multimedia tutorial player that will get even the most novice computer user performing a wide range of computing tasks. The "How-To" tutorials cover everything from simple desktop navigation, to setting up a wireless Internet connection. Try it yourself and see!


I don't know what else anyone woud need. Why not say goodbye to Windows? I know that I am.

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