Linspire Five.0 CNR Edition

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Product Features

• Advanced and secure Linspire Internet Suite, with tabbed Web browsing, Hot Word searching, in-line spellchecking and pop-up blockers
• Touch up the family photos with Lphoto, enjoy your favorite music with Lsongs
• The OpenOffice.org suite features powerful word processing, speadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs
• Work with Nvu, a full Web authoring solution
• Make free Web-based phone calls worlwide with the PhoneGaim utility

Product Details

Product Manual [15.03mb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007XYRUY
• Item model number: CSXXXRESXOOOFF
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 3, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,047 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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  #25 in	Software > Linux > Operating Systems & Utilities

• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Product Description
Linspire CNR Edition is a full-featured computer operating system. It provides a stable, virus-free computing experience, that's incredibly easy-to-use. Use Linspire to do things on the Web, create and share documents, work with graphics, play music, organize digital photos, view rich multimedia files and easily connect to networks and peripherals. The CNR Edition includes a one-year subscription which provides access to the Linspire CNR Warehouse. Includes 1-year subscription to the CNR Service - an online library of over 2,000 programs Plug & Play ready - Plug in all your USB or Firewire devices, they'll be recognized in seconds - from scanners to digital cameras Add a printer more easily than ever with the Printer Wizard, while Easy Networking lets you read, write, share, and browse your network with ease System Requirements - 800MHz PC, 128MB RAM, 4GB free HDD space, SVGA or higher monitor, CD/DVD drive, Internet/LAN connectivity

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The easiest Linux system I've ever used, August 6, 2005

By	Kendall (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

I read some of the negative reviews by other people here but decided to try it out for myself. I was really glad that I did! These guys must be Linux geeks or Ph.D. students who like running complicated Linux versions. I tried Mandriva and Xandros and Fedora Core and I have to say that they were a nightmare to try to setup.

I popped the Linspire CD into the drive. It installed in about 10 minutes and detected all of my hardware without any trouble. Within about 5 minutes I was up and surfing the web! My broadband Cox cable connection was detected automatically and set itself up. I decided to check out the CNR Warehouse Membership to see if I would be interested.

You can sign up for a free test drive of the software at Linspire's web site and it doesn't cost a dime. After I did the free trial I decided to go with their "full trial" of Click and Run. I gave them my credit card info and they gave me like 15 days to check it out with no obligation. In the end, I decided to sign up for the $20 a year Click and Run Warehouse Membership. They offer two different levels depending on what you want:

1. A $49.95 / yr. plan
2. A $19.95 / yr. plan

The $20 a year plan was perfect for me! I was able to browse for programs that I wanted by category (Audio & MP3, Business & Finance, etc..) and click a button and it installed with no hassles, no questions, no troubles at all. It tried installing programs with Mandriva and Fedora but it was ridiculous. I kept getting errors and it kept failing. I tried to figure out what was going wrong but, I gave up after awhile.

Linux is hard. No matter what these nerds say it's not as easy as they make it sound. I've never been able to just install something on Linux or get it to work correctly -- until I tried Linspire. I recommend this version of Linux to anyone who is looking to get away from Billy Boy and MicroSuck. I recommend that you try other versions of Linux first. Then.... try Linspire. Test out the Click and Run Warehouse and you will see what I mean! I am more than willing to pay someone to help make Linux easier for me to use. I am running Linspire on all 3 of the computers in my house now and I can share files and programs between all of them without any problems.

Thank you to Linspire for finally making a version of Linux for the rest of us!

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Even MSNBC agrees Linspire is a wonderful OS!, April 15, 2005

By	K. Carmony "Linux Lover" (So. Cal, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I use Linspire every day and love it, so I'm a bit partial. So, I thought I'd just post a few of the comments made by Gary Krakow of MSNBC:

* I don't always get excited about what I'm testing. Products can be good but still wind up leaving me flat. That's especially true of a product I've tested a number of times in the past. Incremental upgrades never make my heart skip a beat. Except for this upgrade: Linspire 5.0.

* Linspire calls their product the world's easiest desktop Linux. I cannot disagree. Of the different flavors of Linux that I've tried in the recent past, Linspire is, hands down, the easiest to install, configure and use.

* I've found no such problems with Linspire 5.0. It takes the operating system to new heights.

* The company calls the OS `5-0', like `Hawaii 5-0'. The people at Linspire are trying to convey the fact that their new software is hip. They really don't need slick phrases to do that - all they have to do is get it in people's hands and let the word of mouth spread.

* I was happy to find that everything worked out of the box. Picture, sound, everything. What really amazed me was that Linspire 5-0 not only knew I had a Wi-Fi card in my laptop, but it had it working before I told it the name of my wireless network. This is a first for any Linux distribution I've ever played with.

* During the test period, 5-0 has behaved wonderfully. Even on my older laptop, Linspire is speedy and solid.

* Linspire is becoming a very good, very slick operating system for PCs....Linspire 5-0 is quite capable of handling many of your computing needs. It would be my first choice among the many brands of Linux for non-power users.

To read his full review, visit http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7490041

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Distro Hands Down, October 31, 2006

By	Patrick Beaudry "Patrick" (Arden Hills, MN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A lot of people have complained about various features that Linspire offers. The most common being the use of the CNR client. What these people seem to not understand or in their bias against Linspire just plain omit is that there are two versions of the CNR membership.

CNR Basic and CNR Gold.

The second review on here "Why are you paying for free software??" fails to mention the reason this is a pay service. Yes you could use apt-get to install debian packages but CNR goes through the trouble of making sure each package has no dependency issues. While most current users of Linux don't mind a little trouble shooting must users of computers want something that just works.

At the time his review was written Basic was $20a year. It is now free, it is better than apt get in the sense that it is graphical, as in no command line a scary land similar to dos prompt for all the newbies and converts.

CNR offers an aisle system so all the programs you want can be organized and set to install with a single click instead of manually doing each one.

Best of all that so called horrible cost of $50 for CNR Gold well it isn't that bad at all. For one thing you get an unlimitted number of aisles. Two you get discounts on every click and buy program, because like it or not even in debian not every program is free. Believe me, I know. In just the last 4 months my CNR Gold membership has given me over a $80 savings subtract that 50 and I still saved 30. Think of your membership like one for Costco or Sams Club.

It just drives me crazy when people bash this service, it is a time saver and a headache saver. And I am not just some newbie. I have been using Linux for over 5 years now. I started with Redhat 8, I own a copy of Suse 10 and I have been with Linspire ever since they launched Linspire 4.5.