Lindows for free

[Livewire]

There was a long, long thread a few weeks ago about being able to
download a free Bittorrent ISO image of Lindows from the Linspire site.

Lots of people tried and failed and the general concensus was that a
time-limited offer was over.

Well it isn't as I'm downloading my copy as I write.

However, it's a bit complicated.

1. Register with Inspire (free, and easy) at:

https://shop.linspire.com/shopping/shopping_cartcontents.php?
addItem=Array

2. Go to a German site

http://www.pcwelt.de/news/software/39287/

Then translate it into Rnglish.


3. In the 3rd paragraph click the link where it says: "If you visit
*this* order website." It shows you as having ordered the Bittorrent
ISO at $49.50

4. Click "Apply Coupon"

5. You might get two choices -- Linspire 4.5, or BitTorrent-Only Isos or
just the BitTorrent-Only Isos

6. In either case, in the box beside the BitTorrent-Only Isos option
type lindows (lower case L)

7. Click "update". That should reduce the balance tol $0.

8. Then click "Continue".

9. Then click "checkout" and then "process order now".

10. Then click "continue" again which takes you to a page saying "Sign
up for a free trial.

11. Click "My products" on the left

12. Click "CD downloads"

13. Assuming you want to download from an ftp server rather than using
the Bittorrent program, you must now cick the line that says "Linspire
4.5 Installation CD (Bittorrent)".

14. Click "proceed with download"

That takes you to a page with two ftp ownload options, which should be
straightforward enough.


Well I said it was complicated. Good luck!

 

[Mark S.]

Livewire wrote alt.comp.freeware on Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:19:51 +0100, the
following...

There was a long, long thread a few weeks ago about being able to
download a free Bittorrent ISO image of Lindows from the Linspire site.

Lots of people tried and failed and the general concensus was that a
time-limited offer was over.

Well it isn't as I'm downloading my copy as I write.

However, it's a bit complicated.

SNIP DIRECTIONS

Well I said it was complicated. Good luck!

Your direction are excellent!!! Luck is not necessary.
It took me all of about 10 minutes or less to do (except for the
download). And as I write this, am also downloading Lindows they way you
wrote.

Thank you,

Mark S.

 

[Anti_Freak_Machine]

There was a long, long thread a few weeks ago about being able to
download a free Bittorrent ISO image of Lindows from the Linspire site.

Lots of people tried and failed and the general concensus was that a
time-limited offer was over.

Well it isn't as I'm downloading my copy as I write.

Woohoo worked like a charm! thanks!

 

[rach]

Your direction are excellent!!! Luck is not necessary.
It took me all of about 10 minutes or less to do (except for the
download). And as I write this, am also downloading Lindows they way you
wrote.

Thank you,

Mark S.

I agree, very detailed instructions! I too am downloading it right now.

Rach

 

[Jan]

There was a long, long thread a few weeks ago about being able to
download a free Bittorrent ISO image of Lindows from the Linspire site.

Lots of people tried and failed and the general concensus was that a
time-limited offer was over.

Well it isn't as I'm downloading my copy as I write.

However, it's a bit complicated.

1. Register with Inspire (free, and easy) at:

https://shop.linspire.com/shopping/shopping_cartcontents.php?
addItem=Array

2. Go to a German site

http://www.pcwelt.de/news/software/39287/

Then translate it into Rnglish.


3. In the 3rd paragraph click the link where it says: "If you visit
*this* order website." It shows you as having ordered the Bittorrent
ISO at $49.50

4. Click "Apply Coupon"

5. You might get two choices -- Linspire 4.5, or BitTorrent-Only Isos or
just the BitTorrent-Only Isos

6. In either case, in the box beside the BitTorrent-Only Isos option
type lindows (lower case L)

7. Click "update". That should reduce the balance tol $0.

8. Then click "Continue".

9. Then click "checkout" and then "process order now".

10. Then click "continue" again which takes you to a page saying "Sign
up for a free trial.

11. Click "My products" on the left

12. Click "CD downloads"

13. Assuming you want to download from an ftp server rather than using
the Bittorrent program, you must now cick the line that says "Linspire
4.5 Installation CD (Bittorrent)".

I too am downloading - your instructions were very straighforward.

 

[Thip]

There was a long, long thread a few weeks ago about being able to
download a free Bittorrent ISO image of Lindows from the Linspire site.

Lots of people tried and failed and the general concensus was that a
time-limited offer was over.

Well it isn't as I'm downloading my copy as I write.

However, it's a bit complicated.

1. Register with Inspire (free, and easy) at:

https://shop.linspire.com/shopping/shopping_cartcontents.php?
addItem=Array

2. Go to a German site

http://www.pcwelt.de/news/software/39287/

Then translate it into Rnglish.


3. In the 3rd paragraph click the link where it says: "If you visit
*this* order website." It shows you as having ordered the Bittorrent
ISO at $49.50

4. Click "Apply Coupon"

5. You might get two choices -- Linspire 4.5, or BitTorrent-Only Isos or
just the BitTorrent-Only Isos

6. In either case, in the box beside the BitTorrent-Only Isos option
type lindows (lower case L)

7. Click "update". That should reduce the balance tol $0.

8. Then click "Continue".

9. Then click "checkout" and then "process order now".

10. Then click "continue" again which takes you to a page saying "Sign
up for a free trial.

11. Click "My products" on the left

12. Click "CD downloads"

13. Assuming you want to download from an ftp server rather than using
the Bittorrent program, you must now cick the line that says "Linspire
4.5 Installation CD (Bittorrent)".

14. Click "proceed with download"

That takes you to a page with two ftp ownload options, which should be
straightforward enough.


Well I said it was complicated. Good luck!

WOOOOOHOOOOOOOO! Thanks!

 

[Kram]

There was a long, long thread a few weeks ago about being able to
download a free Bittorrent ISO image of Lindows from the Linspire site.

Lots of people tried and failed and the general concensus was that a
time-limited offer was over.

Well it isn't as I'm downloading my copy as I write.

However, it's a bit complicated.

1. Register with Inspire (free, and easy) at:

https://shop.linspire.com/shopping/shopping_cartcontents.php?
addItem=Array

2. Go to a German site

http://www.pcwelt.de/news/software/39287/

Then translate it into Rnglish.


3. In the 3rd paragraph click the link where it says: "If you visit
*this* order website." It shows you as having ordered the Bittorrent
ISO at $49.50

4. Click "Apply Coupon"

5. You might get two choices -- Linspire 4.5, or BitTorrent-Only Isos or
just the BitTorrent-Only Isos

6. In either case, in the box beside the BitTorrent-Only Isos option
type lindows (lower case L)

7. Click "update". That should reduce the balance tol $0.

8. Then click "Continue".

9. Then click "checkout" and then "process order now".

10. Then click "continue" again which takes you to a page saying "Sign
up for a free trial.

11. Click "My products" on the left

12. Click "CD downloads"

13. Assuming you want to download from an ftp server rather than using
the Bittorrent program, you must now cick the line that says "Linspire
4.5 Installation CD (Bittorrent)".

14. Click "proceed with download"

That takes you to a page with two ftp ownload options, which should be
straightforward enough.


Well I said it was complicated. Good luck!

Thanks for the directions, most excellent. Downloaded and installed it
after burning to cd.

Linspire is the way linux should be, I was amazed at how fast and easy
the installation was.

I've tried Mandrake, Knoppix and a couple of others, but this has been
the easiest to use so far (15 minutes). Love it, thanks for the
excellent directions.

Mark

 

[Sundog]

Thanks for the directions, most excellent. Downloaded and installed it
after burning to cd.

Linspire is the way linux should be, I was amazed at how fast and easy
the installation was.

I've tried Mandrake, Knoppix and a couple of others, but this has been
the easiest to use so far (15 minutes). Love it, thanks for the
excellent directions.

Mark

Congratulations all

Now then,
what software is available for it (e.g audio + video playing + editing +
burning, word processing, etc)
how stable is it,
how does it compare with Win2K Pro?
etc.

I'm a windoze user who would be happy to see M$'s share price at 10 cents.

Comments much appreciated

Sd

 

[Al Smith]

There was a long, long thread a few weeks ago about being able to

download a free Bittorrent ISO image of Lindows from the Linspire site.

Lots of people tried and failed and the general concensus was that a
time-limited offer was over.

Well it isn't as I'm downloading my copy as I write.

However, it's a bit complicated.

LOL. Sort of like Linux in general.

 

[Kram]

Congratulations all

Now then,
what software is available for it (e.g audio + video playing + editing +
burning, word processing, etc)
how stable is it,
how does it compare with Win2K Pro?
etc.

I'm a windoze user who would be happy to see M$'s share price at 10 cents.

Comments much appreciated

It has all of the software you asked about above, and more. Stable
(running it for the last 2 hours) as 2000 and XP. I haven't run into
any annoying "Linux Quirks" as I have with other distros.

Very much has the look and feel of "Windows" which I like, a very low
learning curve for me, but after poking around can see that it can be
set to look and act like other standard Linux interfaces.

It also seems more responsive than Mandrake, Xandros, and Knoppix on my
AMD 2100 machine AND played nicely with my hard drive mbr.

I thought I read a post in this newsgroup that this Lindows will time
out after a certain period of time, but at least I've had a taste of it,
always wanted to try it, I've heard how great it is and how bad it is.

For me this is easily the best Linux I've tried, if it times out I'll
recheck Mandrake, and if I don't like it, will spend the $59 for a
Linspire CD.

Mark

 

[Chong]

works perfect thanks for the instruction
previous poster forgot to mention the cd download part.

 

[Achim Nolcken Lohse]

There was a long, long thread a few weeks ago about being able to
download a free Bittorrent ISO image of Lindows from the Linspire site.

Lots of people tried and failed and the general concensus was that a
time-limited offer was over.

Well it isn't as I'm downloading my copy as I write.

Thanks for the heads up. I've been trying to download it for a while,
but keep losing the connection. Haven't been able to find a way to get
Stardownloader to download it, so I'm stuck with IE, without resume.
Have downloaded more than 300MB so far, but nothing to show for it.

I wonder if anyone has been able to use a download accelerator to
download Lindows?




Achim



axethetax

 

[rach]

[snip]

Thanks for the heads up. I've been trying to download it for a while,
but keep losing the connection. Haven't been able to find a way to get
Stardownloader to download it, so I'm stuck with IE, without resume.
Have downloaded more than 300MB so far, but nothing to show for it.

I wonder if anyone has been able to use a download accelerator to
download Lindows?

[snip]

I had much better results with bittorrent.

 

[Achim Nolcken Lohse]

[snip]

Thanks for the heads up. I've been trying to download it for a while,
but keep losing the connection. Haven't been able to find a way to get
Stardownloader to download it, so I'm stuck with IE, without resume.
Have downloaded more than 300MB so far, but nothing to show for it.

I wonder if anyone has been able to use a download accelerator to
download Lindows?

[snip]

I had much better results with bittorrent.

I decided to give it a few more tries, first with DLExpress, then
Stardownloader 1.43, and finally again with IE5.01. The former two
couldn't get the file. I couldn't paste the URL in, as it never
appeared, and they couldn't pick it up from IE for some reason. But a
finally got an IE download that completed. It took an hour and a half,
starting at 9:30 pm Mountain Time, and kept at a steady 99.5 KB/sec.

I'm a bit antsy about bittorrent, because I haven't been able to
install all the security updates available for my OS or my browser.

BTW - I looked all over the Lindows site and couldn't find the OS's
system requirements. Anybody know what they are?

The only answer I could get were the requirements for LindowsLive. I'm
assuming/hoping they're lower for regular Lindows.



Achim



axethetax

 

[PuppyKatt]

: On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:19:51 +0100, Livewire
:
: >There was a long, long thread a few weeks ago about being able to
: >download a free Bittorrent ISO image of Lindows from the Linspire
site.
: >
: >Lots of people tried and failed and the general concensus was that a
: >time-limited offer was over.
: >
: >Well it isn't as I'm downloading my copy as I write.
: >
:
: Thanks for the heads up. I've been trying to download it for a while,
: but keep losing the connection. Haven't been able to find a way to get
: Stardownloader to download it, so I'm stuck with IE, without resume.
: Have downloaded more than 300MB so far, but nothing to show for it.
:
: I wonder if anyone has been able to use a download accelerator to
: download Lindows?
:
:
:
:
: Achim
:
:
:
: axethetax

I used Get Right, and it took 45 minutes.

 

[PuppyKatt]

I'm wondering if it lives comfortably on an 80 Gig Ntfs drive,
unpartitioned, running XP, or if I should just take the computer in, and
get it formatted, so I don't lose anything (can't afford to buy a
partition program that will let you keep everything and not have to
format) or if I should put a second, smaller HD in here and then install
the Lindows on that, using either dual boot or boot from XP. too uch on
this computer to risk getting gutsy.

--
Thou shalt not admit adultry.
: On Thu, 13 May 2004 21:16:11 -0700, "rach" <[email protected]>
: wrote:
:
: >: >[snip]
: >>
: >> Thanks for the heads up. I've been trying to download it for a
while,
: >> but keep losing the connection. Haven't been able to find a way to
get
: >> Stardownloader to download it, so I'm stuck with IE, without
resume.
: >> Have downloaded more than 300MB so far, but nothing to show for it.
: >>
: >> I wonder if anyone has been able to use a download accelerator to
: >> download Lindows?
: >>
: >[snip]
: >
: >I had much better results with bittorrent.
:
: I decided to give it a few more tries, first with DLExpress, then
: Stardownloader 1.43, and finally again with IE5.01. The former two
: couldn't get the file. I couldn't paste the URL in, as it never
: appeared, and they couldn't pick it up from IE for some reason. But a
: finally got an IE download that completed. It took an hour and a half,
: starting at 9:30 pm Mountain Time, and kept at a steady 99.5 KB/sec.
:
: I'm a bit antsy about bittorrent, because I haven't been able to
: install all the security updates available for my OS or my browser.
:
: BTW - I looked all over the Lindows site and couldn't find the OS's
: system requirements. Anybody know what they are?
:
: The only answer I could get were the requirements for LindowsLive. I'm
: assuming/hoping they're lower for regular Lindows.
:
:
:
: Achim
:
:
:
: axethetax

 

[ranrad]

I used Get Right, and it took 45 minutes.

I'm using "OT" DAP and I've got 119MB down and 26hours 51 mins 50secs to go

 

[Achim Nolcken Lohse]

I'm wondering if it lives comfortably on an 80 Gig Ntfs drive,
unpartitioned, running XP, or if I should just take the computer in, and
get it formatted, so I don't lose anything (can't afford to buy a
partition program that will let you keep everything and not have to
format) or if I should put a second, smaller HD in here and then install
the Lindows on that, using either dual boot or boot from XP. too uch on
this computer to risk getting gutsy.

I've installed Linux both ways several times. I believe I used
Presizer and Ranish with my Win98SE laptop last time. Never used XP.
Partitioning is always scary if you don't have a reliable backup (an
oxymoron with my hardware).

I've used several versions of Partition Magic too, and found it the
scariest of all, failing to even recognize entire physical drives, and
reporting bogus errors in a Windows install that ran without apparent
problems. So my advice would be to add a hard drive and dedicate it to
Linux alone. Then all you have to worry about is the boot manager. If
you set up to boot Linux from floppy, you can minimize that risk too,
and set up a boot manager later when you're comfortable with the dual
system.



Achim
_____/)
axethetax

 

[PuppyKatt]

Thank you, Achim. I will use a second hard drive. 6 Gigs should be
plenty?
--
Thou shalt not admit adultry.

: On Fri, 14 May 2004 05:44:56 -0500, "PuppyKatt"
:
: >I'm wondering if it lives comfortably on an 80 Gig Ntfs drive,
: >unpartitioned, running XP, or if I should just take the computer in,
and
: >get it formatted, so I don't lose anything (can't afford to buy a
: >partition program that will let you keep everything and not have to
: >format) or if I should put a second, smaller HD in here and then
install
: >the Lindows on that, using either dual boot or boot from XP. too uch
on
: >this computer to risk getting gutsy.
:
: I've installed Linux both ways several times. I believe I used
: Presizer and Ranish with my Win98SE laptop last time. Never used XP.
: Partitioning is always scary if you don't have a reliable backup (an
: oxymoron with my hardware).
:
: I've used several versions of Partition Magic too, and found it the
: scariest of all, failing to even recognize entire physical drives, and
: reporting bogus errors in a Windows install that ran without apparent
: problems. So my advice would be to add a hard drive and dedicate it to
: Linux alone. Then all you have to worry about is the boot manager. If
: you set up to boot Linux from floppy, you can minimize that risk too,
: and set up a boot manager later when you're comfortable with the dual
: system.
:
:
:
: Achim
: _____/)
: axethetax

 

[Achim Nolcken Lohse]

Thank you, Achim. I will use a second hard drive. 6 Gigs should be
plenty?
--

I sure hope so! My "newest" PC will only accept an 8GB drive, but I
haven't been able to find one that small locally....Plus I need at
least 2GB for Windows.

I'm hoping I could install Linspire or Knoppix on 4GB or less on my
Panasonic Toughbook CF-25, but that would require a pcmcia install,
for which I don't have the necessary support floppy.

Linspire seems to be quite limited in its installation options.
Mandrake, for comparison, would let one spread the install over a
number of partitions on several physical disks, while Linspire has to
put everything in a single partition or physical drive, and won't even
tell you how big that drive or partition needs to be!

Since it provides no partitioning tools in the installer, you also
have to have a cleared drive or partition of sufficient size ready.

Let us know how your installation goes.

--

Achim
_____/)
axethetax
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