Earl Monroe

He also served as a spokesman for the American Heart Association, along with his former Knicks teammate, Walt "Clyde" Frazier. Squiggle OS however, is no longer in development. He has received many honors for these "off-the-court" community activities, including the Harlem Professionals Inspirational Award, Most Outstanding Model for American Youth, the YMCA Citizenship Award and Big Apple Sportsman of the Year Award. Linspire then, on the back of the generated publicity, offered users a "free Linspire" (purchase price discounted to $0) by using the coupon code "Freespire" until September 9th 2005, thereby greatly increasing its userbase. Monroe has also been active in various community affairs and programs, including the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Health, the Crown Heights Youth Collective, the Literary Assistance Fund and the Harlem Junior Tennis Program. As of the name change, the former Freespire adopted a development codename "Squiggle" ( http://www.squiggleos.org/ ( http://www.squiggleos.org/nodrmpleaselinspire.php )), and began contemplation of a new distro name. In recent years, he has been serving as a commentator for Madison Square Garden and as commissioner of the New Jersey Urban Development Corporation. Freespire was confused by some users to be an actual product from Linspire, and its creator voluntarily changed the name to avoid the confusion.

Monroe was chosen commissioner of the United States Basketball League in 1985. This distribution was created by Andrew Betts ( http://www.jaspuk.co.uk/ ) and was not produced or released by Linspire Inc. Monroe was named one of the 50 players on the NBA 50th Anniversary All-Time Team in 1996. Freespire was a GNU/Linux distribution based on the source pools from Linspire. In 1990, he was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. In August 2005, a distribution LiveCD called "Freespire" hit the web by accident. The Knicks retired his jersey number (#15) in 1986. (Reviews may be found at http://linspire.com/reviews.).

He also spent eight years (1972-1980) with the New York Knicks, winning an NBA championship in 1973. Linspire does, however, find favor with many reviewers, largely for its ease of use. In 1967, he joined the NBA team Baltimore Bullets (now the Washington Wizards), where he won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award in a season that included scoring 56 points in a game against the Los Angeles Lakers, the third-highest rookie total in NBA history at the time. On the other hand, without the security barriers of separate user accounts, even network-connected client programs pose highly increased risks, especially with the increased popularity of peer-to-peer type networking applications. Monroe rose to prominence at the Division II school playing basketball at Winston-Salem State University, located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. There is also a strict firewall installed and enabled by default, which blocks everything except for port 22 (i.e. SSH). He was nicknamed "Earl the Pearl". However, it should also be noted that the default Linspire installation does not include network services.

Earl Vernon Monroe (born on November 21, 1944, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), was an American professional basketball player known for his flamboyant dribbling, passing and play-making. Proponents of Linux use also put a high value on the education of users, and find that it is important for everybody to learn about the traditional and reliable security models based on limited users, and feel that a weakening of this knowledge in the general Linux user community could lead to exploitation by specifically targeted malware. Basketball Hall of Fame profile. Moreover, with Linspire being a distribution aimed for generally less advanced home and business users, they may not be able to make informed choices about their system security. Opponents maintain that an intruder managing to gain control of a Linspire system can do anything he or she wants to the computer, such as installing spyware and loading kernel modules to mask the intrusion, and therefore believe that the default should be to force the creation of user accounts. Linspire also claims that this should be the user's choice, not Linspire's.

He also claims that once an intruder has gained access to your machine under any account, your data has been compromised and the point is moot. Michael Robertson, the Founder of Linspire, has argued that the separation of root from normal users is essentially not relevant, given that Linspire PCs are single-user systems, and not multiuser servers. However, unlike most distributions, it is not mandated, with the choice being left up to the user. During the installation, users are encouraged not to run as root but to set up user accounts.

Linspire employs the controversial practice of allowing users to always run programs as root, which can potentially nullify the traditional UNIX security system. Some of these licensed, 3rd-party products include fees to the license holder which are paid for and legally licensed by Linspire. Others disagree and argue that the Linspire OS is considerably different from Debian and most other Linux distributions, because it includes dozens of non-open source software programs on its installation CD, such as support for MP3, DVD, Quick Time, Java, Flash, Real, Windows Media, Adobe .pdf, propriatary drivers, and so on. Also charging for what some view as simply a modified version of Debian have attracted criticisms.

Some advanced Linux and UNIX users complain that Linspire allows users to run as root without more forcefully notifying them of the dangers, reducing the system's security. On the other hand deeper technical discussions are often absent from this forum. The online communities are important in all Linux distributions, and the one around Linspire is characterized by a high level of users new to Linux, who find that their often rightly naive questions are answered in a friendly and usually constructive manner. The discussion forums on Linspire's website are very lively, with over 400 000 registered users (although no where near that amount is active), and a high level of daily postings.

(See: http://www.linspire.com/opensource.). Linspire is also the lead maintainer for important projects such as Nvu, Lsongs, Lphoto, and an important contributor to other projects such as Mozilla Firefox, Gaim, Reiser FS, and many others. With very few exceptions, all code that is developed by Linspire is contributed back to the open source community. For a company of Linspire's size, their contributions have been quite admirable.

Linspire has contributed millions of dollars in direct funds and contributed code to several open source projects. The international editions complement the KDE interface in the local language with translated multimedia tutorials, documentation, packaging, installation procedures, support for local ISPs, etc., and are available in the form of boxed packages to be sold at retail stores, or OEM licenses for System Builders. Given the orientation of Linspire towards ease of use, and the consumer desktop, the creation of fully translated international editions is crucial for its successful adoption. IRMA allows Linspire to be available fully translated in many languages, such as English, UK English, German, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian, and others.

IRMA supports over 50 languages with over 1,500 translators. Linspire sponsors the IRMA Project which allows people from all over the world to assist in the translation of open source software. Linspire offers two different pricing options for their annual subscription-based CNR service:. Currently CNR has over 2200 different products ranging from very simple applications to major commercial works like Win4Lin and StarOffice.

CNR also includes Click-'N-Buy or CNB which contains many commercial or proprietary Linux applications available to members at a discounted rate. Linspire's CNR Service (short for click and run but is often joked about as "Collect New Revenue") allows users "unrestricted access to software stored in the CNR Warehouse" [1] The service allows users to install applications using a single click for about USD $20. Four main editions exist: Standard, Developer, OEM and Live. Several varieties of Linspire, known as editions, target different markets.

In the past, Linspire contributed over $500,000 to the WINE project and also hosted several Linux and open source events such as the annual Desktop Linux Summit, Debconf and KDE Developers Conference. Linspire, Inc sponsors many open-source projects and events, including the Gaim and Kopete instant messaging clients, Lsongs, Lphoto, IRMA, the KDE-Apps.org and KDE-Look.org websites; and sponsors Nvu, which is at 1.x (or in the 1.0 series) and is an open-source WYSIWYG website editor based on the Mozilla composer code) intended to rival and supplant the internal use of FrontPage. You can browse a sample listing of all of these programs here. CNR (click and run) has roughly 2,500 pieces of software for download (now however CNR is no longer based on apt-get).

They achieved this using an application called CNR (click and run), a program based on Debian's Advanced Packaging Tool, providing an easy-to-use interface and a slightly modified package system for an annual fee (apt-get costs no money, but has less user-friendliness). later abandoned its initial approach in favor of making Linux applications easy to download, install and use. Linspire Inc. It based its Windows compatibility on WINE.

Linspire, Inc had the initial goal of developing a GNU/Linux-based operating system capable of running major Windows applications as well. See Microsoft vs Lindows for more information. As part of an estimated $24 million cash and licensing settlement from Microsoft (for a case that Microsoft itself brought), Lindows agreed to change their name to Linspire, and transfer the Lindows trademark to Microsoft. At this point, Microsoft offered to settle the case.

In February 2004, a judge rejected two of Microsoft's central claims. claiming the name "Lindows" constituted a trademark infringement on "Windows". Microsoft Corporation sued Lindows, Inc. Kevin Carmony serves as President & CEO for Linspire.

Michael Robertson, the founder and former CEO of MP3.com functions as the Chairman of Linspire, Inc. . Linspire strives to make a GNU/Linux distribution that is easy for the average person to use and not one that will necessarily pander to the demands of a power user. Linspire's focus is on ease-of-use for home, school and business users.

Linspire, previously known as LindowsOS (also Lin---s, pronounced as Lindash), is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian.