2008 Apr - Jun
By: Larry Kettler
Date Published: Apr 11, 2008
I just got back from the 2nd Annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in Austin, Texas where I was able to connect with many old friends in the industry, as well as meet a number of new acquaintances that share the same passion around helping Linux gr
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2008 Jan - Mar
By: Larry Kettler
Date Published: Jan 29, 2008
Two weeks ago, Linspire along with one of our long standing system builder partners, Mirus Innovations, announced the immediate availability of a $199 Linux PC available at Sears.com. If you haven't picked one up yet you might want to hurry, as I just hea
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By: Larry Kettler
Date Published: Jan 10, 2008
A few months after launching Linspire 6.0 Gold Master, I thought it would be interesting for you to hear what other people thought about Linspire 6.0.
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2007 Oct - Dec
By: Larry Kettler
Date Published: Dec 04, 2007
After much anticipation, we are excited to release the beta version of CNR.com. A free service that provides desktop Linux users one-click access to thousands of free and commercial software applications, CNR.com also provides a number of new features tha
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By: Larry Kettler
Date Published: Oct 09, 2007
Today, I am thrilled to announce the immediate availability of the Linspire 6.0 Gold Master. Linspire 6.0 is the first major commercial offering of our desktop Linux operating system in over two years and combines the best of open source software using th
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2007 Apr - Jun
By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Jun 27, 2007
With the recent news of several Linux vendors entering into partnership agreements with Microsoft (Novell, Linspire, Xandros), there has been much debate recently about two factions of Linux forming. Saying that Linux is going to be torn in two, makes for
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Jun 13, 2007
"...the era of setting this up as a competition between Apple and Microsoft is over as far as I'm concerned. This is about getting Apple healthy, and this is about Apple being able to make incredibly great contributions to the industry, to get healthy and
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Jun 05, 2007
The FSF (Free Software Foundation) recently released their latest draft of the proposed new GPL license, "v3." In its current form, GPLv3 may unintentionally end up limiting the very thing we all like about "free" open sourced software...freedom of choice
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By: Chris Tucker
Date Published: May 30, 2007
Most Linspire Letters address high-level topics about desktop Linux and the state of the software industry as a whole. Today, by contrast, we’re going to delve deeply into the technology that makes CNR tick: the package management system.
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: May 14, 2007
This week, Microsoft laid out the next chapter in their plans regarding patents and open source Linux software, by going public with the claim that Linux infringes on some 235 of their software patents. The first chapter in this story began back in Novemb
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: May 01, 2007
There has been a lot of speculation surrounding Dell offering Linux computers pre-installed with Linux. I have been a long-time defender of Dell in the past, anytime Linux enthusiasts would attack them for not offering Linux PCs. I have defended them beca
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Apr 25, 2007
These past several months have been a time of great transition for Linspire. As most of you know, we have announced several significant changes, and most of these will come to life in the next 60 days, including an entirely new CNR system and ne
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Apr 17, 2007
Digital Rights Management (DRM) wrapped music is a serious challenge for Linux, so I wanted to make sure all of you knew about something very important that happened recently, and let you know how YOU can help in the fight against DRM.
Our Chairman and f
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2007 Jan - Mar
By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Feb 07, 2007
This week, Linspire and Canonical, the lead sponsor of the popular Ubuntu operating system, announced a technology partnership that will integrate core competencies from each company into the other's open source Linux offerings. This is very exciting news
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Feb 01, 2007
Last week Linspire made a very significant announcement. For the first time ever, we will be making CNR available for other desktop Linux distributions, not just Linspire and Freespire. The response has been extremely positive, which I'll share more about
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Jan 22, 2007
One of the biggest complaints I hear from MS Windows and Mac users about Linux, is that there are too many distributions, each with their own installation system. Desktop Linux isn't like MS Windows or Mac, where you can simply go hunting on the Internet
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Jan 03, 2007
The end of 2006 marks the 5th year Linspire (formally "Lindows") has been working to help bring desktop Linux to a broader audience. We all know Linux is a dominant player on servers, and has also found its way to the desktops of many developers and Linux
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2006 Oct - Dec
By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Nov 03, 2006
I just finished watching a joint news conference with Microsoft and Novell, announcing a new set of agreements for technology, interoperability and intellectual property (IP).
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Oct 26, 2006
For weeks, rumors that Oracle was developing (or acquiring) its own version of Linux had been circulating throughout the industry, driving down Red Hat's stock. Yesterday, the speculation ended when Oracle's chief executive, Larry Ellison, announced in hi
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By: Larry Kettler
Date Published: Oct 12, 2006
Late last month we announced our NEW Partner Program and highlighted some significant changes to our popular Builder Program, designed specifically for system builders and white box manufacturers, those who supply the world with desktop and laptop persona
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2006 Jul - Sep
By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Aug 30, 2006
Today is a red letter day in the history of Linspire. After five years, we have done away with the annual fee for the basic CNR service. You can read the announcement here. We had previously announced that we were open sourcing CNR, which will happen la
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Aug 09, 2006
Earlier this year, at the Desktop Linux Summit, I announced the new Freespire community project. At that time, we set out a Roadmap with a projected release date for the first version of Freespire of September 1, 2006. I'm very excited and pro
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Aug 03, 2006
It was reported this week that Novell has banned all proprietary software from their Linux offerings. To me, this would be a bit like McDonalds announcing it will adopt an Atkins-only menu, selling only healthy, low-carb salads, and dropping fries, shakes
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2006 Apr - Jun
By: Larry Kettler
Date Published: Jun 29, 2006
The announcement this week of the Linspire Mini's availability is another example of how desktop Linux continues to march forward toward widespread adoption. The Linspire Mini is currently offered by system builder Mirus at koobox.com, but to get there, t
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Jun 01, 2006
Since I announced the Freespire project at about a month ago at the Desktop Linux Summit, I have been spending a lot of time with the press and others answering questions about this new project. The two most often-asked questions I get are:
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: May 11, 2006
In the last Linspire Letter, I shared with you our recent announcement about Freespire, a no-cost, community version of the Linspire operating system. Freespire is designed more for developers and the traditional Linux devotee than for consumers, who are
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Apr 21, 2006
It may surprise many of you to know that even though I am the CEO of a Linux company, I didn't know what Linux was just five short years ago. I didn't get involved with Linux as many do, by playing around with the code as a developer. I got involved becau
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Apr 18, 2006
On Monday and Tuesday of next week (April 24th & 25th), Linspire will be taking part in the 4th Annual Desktop Linux Summit (DLS). This event has grown to be the meeting place of the biggest players and contributers in desktop Linux - both commercial and
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2006 Jan - Mar
By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Mar 08, 2006
This was the headline in a recent review in PC Magazine of a $159 Linspire PC sold at Fry's Electronics.
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Feb 23, 2006
Microsoft has hinted that their next version of Windows, called Vista, will debut with up to eight different versions.
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Feb 13, 2006
I just got off the phone with Mark Shuttleworth (founder and leader of Ubuntu), and the call inspired this week's Linspire Letter. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Mark, and he and I definitely share many of the same goals and differ on others. O
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By: Mike Sheffey
Date Published: Jan 11, 2006
Everyone has a personality and history that is unique. It doesn't matter if you move to another state, cut your hair or dress differently, that unique personality and history stays with you. Sure, your personality may change some over time — perhaps due t
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2005 Oct - Dec
By: Tom Welch
Date Published: Dec 08, 2005
OK, I admit it - I'm a Western movie junkie. I love westerns. The classic good-versus-evil storyline, the shootouts, the horse chases ... everything about the cowboy genre has captivated me since I was a kid.
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Nov 30, 2005
I recently returned from a trip to Las Vegas. While there, I was visiting one of the larger shopping centers where there was a magician's shop. The employees there were giving impressive demonstrations of tricks that you could purchase and take home to wo
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By: Kevin Jones
Date Published: Nov 11, 2005
As the VP of Merchandising for Micro Center, my goal is to offer the latest, widest, most complete selection of personal computer products to our customers.
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Nov 02, 2005
In a recent quarterly report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Microsoft warned investors that it may be forced to pull its Windows operating system out of South Korea as a result of a pending investigation by the Korean Fair Trade C
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By: Kevin La Rue
Date Published: Oct 28, 2005
By now everyone knows of eBay, the mega-brand auction service. eBay just oozes Internet credibility.
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Oct 13, 2005
There has been a lot of talk recently about the "$100 laptop" that the MIT Media Lab is developing for students around the world.
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2005 Jul - Sep
By: Matt Riggott
Date Published: Sep 28, 2005
I have been working for operating systems companies for nearly eight years — first in UNIX, then in Linux. During this time, as happens to nearly all of us, I have been frequently asked the question, "What exactly do you do for a living?"
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By: Patrick L. Green
Date Published: Sep 21, 2005
This week, longtime Linspire Insider Patrick Green gives us the skinny on what it takes to demo desktop Linux to a crowd with this inside look at the Chicago Computer Society's Mini Expo.
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By: David Orban
Date Published: Sep 07, 2005
When one hears about great adventures, the stories often hide the reality, magnifying the funny, interesting, and, well, "adventurous" parts and downplaying the daily chores and the thankless tasks that have to be carried out anyway.
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Aug 31, 2005
For years, we've all been taught that the two most powerful words in selling are "free" and "new"...
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By: Tom Welch
Date Published: Aug 24, 2005
When you live anywhere west of the Mississippi, you're always surrounded by talk and imagery of the "pioneering spirit."
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By: Kendall Dawson
Date Published: Aug 17, 2005
Have you ever watched rain landing on a window...in certain ways, reminds me a bit of this phenomenon.
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Aug 09, 2005
Facing tight school budgets, teachers and administrators have had to be creative to provide quality education programs. Tapping grant money, rubbing elbows with politicians, holding bake sales and raffles, and soliciting more funds from parents have all b
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By: Peter van der Linden
Date Published: Aug 03, 2005
Just ask my wife and she'll tell you, if I have one fault, it's my forgetfulness about anniversaries. Actually, she would probably feel unduly restricted by mentioning only one of my faults. “You can't do the man justice by picking just one fault over ano
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By: Kevin La Rue
Date Published: Jul 28, 2005
If you're a Linspire user or a regular reader of the Linspire Letter, you've probably heard of our CNR Service, a digital software delivery system built into every copy of Linspire Linux. At its essence, the CNR Service allows...
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Jul 20, 2005
In my position, it's not surprising that I talk with people about desktop Linux almost every day. The most often asked question I get is: "Why should I consider Linux? I've been running Microsoft Windows for years - what are the advantages to switching?
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By: Karla Uribe
Date Published: Jul 13, 2005
One of our company's goals is to give the choice to use the Linspire operating system to everyone in the world. In order to do that, we needed to be able to offer people not only the easiest-to-use operating system out there, but also something in their o
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By: Lee Little
Date Published: Jul 07, 2005
I made the choice to come to Linspire because I have first-hand experience working for technology organizations that have been on the cusp of change. I've worked for my share of big guys - In the early '90s, I had the opportunity to work for Dell, where m
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2005 Apr - Jun
By: Larry Kettler
Date Published: Jun 30, 2005
When we initially discussed the introduction of the Linspire Letter, I was excited by the prospect of hearing diverse views from not only our employees, but also our partners and Linspire Insiders from around the world.
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By: Kevin Carmony
Date Published: Jun 22, 2005
Michael Robertson, Linspire's founder and Chairman, shared in last week's Michael's Minute the news about his new web site, MichaelRobertson.com. He also mentioned how he has turned the position of CEO over to me, but will remain...
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