Look for Slackware to continue to be among the most efficient Linux distributions. There are currently
no plans to add a graphical installer, although the project recently began encouraging the
use of slackpkg for installing packages. You can expect Slackware to remain trim and true to its
roots, making it one of the best Linux distributions to run on older computer hardware.
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The brief history of Linspire is colorful and has been portrayed as a
???David and Goliath??? story, at least in some of the news media. In this
case, Linspire is David and a PC desktop market share is Goliath.
While Goliath seems to have gotten his way, to some extent, David is still
breathing.
Linspire is a commercial, desktop-oriented Linux system that has made a
play for the retail market. Linspire, Inc. has marketed itself as a direct competitor
to Microsoft Windows by offering boxed sets of Linspire, as well as
preinstalled versions on inexpensive PCs.
Freespire is a community project backed by Linspire, Inc., which provides a
more traditional Linux distribution freely available on the Internet. Selected
versions of Freespire will become the basis of future Linspire releases.
This chapter describes what Linspire and Freespire are, their major features,
how to install them, and where to find more information.
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