Hakeem Olajuwon

Hakeem would take his reputation as one of the NBA's best role models into his retirement. Squiggle OS however, is no longer in development. He also gained recognition for his sportsmanlike behavior on the court and his charitable pursuits off the court, and became known as one of the sports world's more intelligent individuals, speaking several languages and having a very developed sense of art appreciation. 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. Olajuwon was still consistently recognized as one of the league's elite centers despite his strict observance (e.g., fasting during daylight hours) of Ramadan, which occurred during the NBA season during virtually all of his career and is usually a handicap for Muslim athletes. 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. "I'm not changing the spelling of my name, I'm correcting it", he explained. Freespire was confused by some users to be an actual product from Linspire, and its creator voluntarily changed the name to avoid the confusion.

He officially announced the altering of his name from Akeem to Hakeem on March 9, 1991. This distribution was created by Andrew Betts ( http://www.jaspuk.co.uk/ ) and was not produced or released by Linspire Inc. However, Olajuwon began exploring his spiritual side later in his career, becoming a devout Muslim and deciding to alter his name to the proper Arabic spelling when he became more pious. Freespire was a GNU/Linux distribution based on the source pools from Linspire. Throughout Olajuwon's college career and early years in the NBA, he was often an undisciplined player, talking back to officials, getting in minor fights with other players, and amassing personal fouls. In August 2005, a distribution LiveCD called "Freespire" hit the web by accident. Shortly after his retirement, his #34 jersey was retired by the Rockets. (Reviews may be found at http://linspire.com/reviews.).

In 1996, the NBA's 50th anniversary, he was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. Linspire does, however, find favor with many reviewers, largely for its ease of use. Olajuwon is also in the top ten in scoring, rebounding, and steals; he is the only player in NBA history placed in the top ten for all four categories. 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. (Note: the NBA did not keep statistics for blocked shots until Abdul-Jabbar had been in the league several years). There is also a strict firewall installed and enabled by default, which blocks everything except for port 22 (i.e. SSH). On August 8, 2001, he was traded to the Toronto Raptors, where he would play his final NBA season before retiring as the all-time leader in blocked shots, well past second-placed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. However, it should also be noted that the default Linspire installation does not include network services.

Houston then began a rebuilding effort, bringing in young guards Cuttino Mobley and Steve Francis, the 2000 Co-Rookie of the Year. 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. Olajuwon continued to lead the team throughout the late 1990s, teaming with Drexler, Barkley, and the newly-acquired Scottie Pippen, but no combination of the four brought Houston a return to prominence. 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. During this period, Olajuwon perfected his set of faking and spinning moves, all of which became known as his trademark Dream Shake and developed intense rivalries with some of the other great centers of that era, as well as his openly hated rival Karl Malone. 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. He did eventually win the long coveted NBA championship, leading the Rockets to the title in both 1994 and 1995, bringing the first pro sports championships in Houston history. Linspire also claims that this should be the user's choice, not Linspire's.

He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1993. 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. Olajuwon also won Defensive Player of the Year honors and league MVP in 1994. 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. He finished second in scoring in both '95 and '96. However, unlike most distributions, it is not mandated, with the choice being left up to the user. Olajuwon also won the rebounding and blocked shots titles, becoming the third player ever (after Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Walton) to lead the league in both categories during the same season. During the installation, users are encouraged not to run as root but to set up user accounts.

He also made the second and third team several times. Linspire employs the controversial practice of allowing users to always run programs as root, which can potentially nullify the traditional UNIX security system. After losing Sampson first to injury and then to trade, the Rockets struggled, though Olajuwon himself thrived individually, being named to the all-NBA First Team in 1987, '88, '89, '93, '94 and '97. Some of these licensed, 3rd-party products include fees to the license holder which are paid for and legally licensed by Linspire. The Rockets had immediate success as Olajuwon teamed with the 1984 Rookie of the Year Ralph Sampson to form the original NBA "Twin Towers" duo, taking Houston to the Finals in 1986 where they succumbed to the Boston Celtics. 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. Olajuwon averaged 20.6 points, 11.9 rebounds and 2.68 blocks in his rookie season, finishing as runner-up to Michael Jordan in the 1985 Rookie of the Year voting, and was the only other rookie to receive any votes. Also charging for what some view as simply a modified version of Debian have attracted criticisms.

He was noted as a prankster by his teammates, and once claimed to CBS broadcaster Billy Packer that his favorite food was ice cream. 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. He was considered the top amateur prospect in the summer of 1984 over fellow collegians and future NBA stars Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and John Stockton, and was selected first overall by the Houston Rockets in the 1984 NBA Draft. On the other hand deeper technical discussions are often absent from this forum. Olajuwon came from Nigeria, and played collegiately at the University of Houston, teaming with Clyde Drexler to form Phi Slamma Jamma. 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. He was affectionately called "Hakeem the Dream" for his grace on and off the court. 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.

Olajuwon was arguably one of the best centers to ever play, along with Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Shaquille O'Neal, Patrick Ewing and David Robinson as the best pivots in basketball history. (See: http://www.linspire.com/opensource.). Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon (born Akeem Abdul Olajuwon on January 21, 1963 in Lagos, Nigeria) is a former college and professional basketball player whose glory days were with the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. 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.