Linspire 5.1.451 review

Linspire Linux delivers the most full-featured desktop computer experience ever available on Linux! Over a year in the making, the n

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Linspire Linux delivers the most full-featured desktop computer experience ever available on Linux! Over a year in the making, the new Linspire Five-0 delivers the most full-featured desktop computer experience ever available on Linux! Check out the new features below, and then take Linspire Five-0 for a spin!

Here are some key features of "Linspire":
Over 1,200 misc. improvements!
Completely new, exclusive Linspire look and feel
Drop shadows and consistent theme throughout
Advanced, next generation CNR (Click and Run)
Hundreds of new software titles in the CNR Warehouse (Myth TV, Kopete, and more...)
Faster boot-up time
Faster install and "First-Time Wizard"
New All-In-One CD for running "live" from CD or installing
New update option for exisitng Linspire users
Enhanced "How-To" Tutorials with voice narration
300+ page "No Nonsense" user manual (optional)
New 2.6.10 Kernel
New KDE 3.3
New Reiser 4 "unbreakable" File System
New X.org 6.8.2 for improved video support
Improved sound support with real-time mixing
New "Supermount" for easier removable media use (CD, Floppy)
Easy-to-use Diagnostic Reporting directly from desktop to Linspire's engineers
New 802.11g support
New easy-to-use wireless control panel
New WiFi Profiles for ease of moving to different locations (home, office, etc.)
New WiFi Access Point Locater
New built in Bittorrent support
New "Hot Words" embedded searching
New in-line spell checking throughout (email, browser, IM, etc.)
New AOL Dialer
Enhanced Firewall for added security
New Lsongs Music Manager
New Lphoto Photo Manager
New RealPlayer 10
New PhoneGaim Instant Messenger with free long-distance phone calls
Expanded support for file and media types (Windows Media, Quick Time, Flash, Java, Real, .doc, .xls, .ppt, .mp3, .PDF, etc.)
New built-in VPN
Improved Networking, File Sharing and Printing
New Nvu Web Authoring
New Lassist Suite (Reminders, MailMinder, Calendar, Address Book)
New OpenOffice 1.1.3

Improved Internet Suite

The Linspire Internet Suite now contains one of the most advanced and secure, yet easy-to-use suites of Internet software available for desktop and laptop computers. Advanced Internet features deliver a superior online experience:
- tabbed web browsing
- Hot Words for instant searching
- Intuitive calendar
- In-line spell-checking for email
- Pop-up ad blocking
and more!

Lsongs

Lsongs is an all-in-one music manager built into Linspire and is ready to help you rip your favorite music, organize it, play it, sync it to portable music players, and burn it to your own music mix CDs. It has everything you need to easily manage and enjoy your music collection.

You can now use Lsongs to purchase music directly from MP3tunes for just 88 cents a song or $8.88 for a full album. The songs are free of any digital rights management (DRM)! This means you can burn your music to CD, add it to your portable MP3 player, use it on your other computers, and more.

Lphoto

Lphoto is a photo managment program that allows you to download, organize, edit, save, and share your entire photo collection. It supports connecting to hundreds of digital cameras. You can easily connect your digital camera to your computer and import all of your pictures with a single mouse-click.

Lphoto allows you to create animated slide shows, burn album to a CD as well as burn your album to video CD (VCD).

PhoneGaim

Make calls to anyone in the world using built-in Internet phone calling thanks to the new PhoneGaim! PhoneGaim Instant Messenger also lets you communicate simultaneously to multiple IM accounts for AOL Instant Messenger, MSN, Yahoo!, Messenger, ICQ, and more! Other key features include in-line spell-checker, free voicemail to email, free PhoneGaim to PhoneGaim calls and more!

Complete Office Suite

Built-into Linspire is a full-featured office software suite called OpenOffice.org. It features word processings, speadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs. All are file-compatible with their Microsoft Office counterparts so you can easily read and share documents with your friends who are still on MS Windows.

Nvu

Nvu is the complete WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") solution for authoring web sites. Nvu makes creating, managing, and updating web sites a snap. Now, anyone can create web pages and manage their web site with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML. Nvu is the easiest, most powerful web authoring system available for Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Improved laptop features

Linspire Five-0 is the ideal solution for anyone wanting to run Linux on their laptop or notebook computer. We have customized this newest version of the Linspire operating system to work well with hardware found in a wide array of laptop computers. Linspire's new easy-to-use wireless control panel lets you set up your wireless connection with ease.

The improved power management greatly extends the life of your battery. Linspire Five-0 also comes with new WiFi profiles that let you switch between wireless connections seamlessly as well as with a new PowerNow support and HyperThreading and new Intel Centrino support.

Multimedia Tutorials

Linspire Five-0 has an enhanced and expanded Tutorial Player that features a series of tutorials designed to help even the most novice user perform a wide range of computing tasks. The "How-To" tutorials cover everything from simple desktop navigation, to setting up a wireless Internet connection.