Linare Corporation, a manufacturer of software and hardware focused on the Linux platform, now makes it easy for businesses to take part in the rapidly growing Linux revolution. Starting this week, Linare Linux Pro Edition will be available to corporate/government sector customers for $40 per license.
Linare Linux Professional Edition is a powerful core operating system designed for the desktop platform. The Linux platform, originally designed by Linus Torvalds, is now considered one of the world’s top operating systems. Linux is revered throughout the world as a cost-efficient and user-friendly alternative.
“Linare Linux Professional Edition makes it easy for the companies to migrate from windows operating system,” said Linare Chief Technologist Dr.Dominic Paulraj. “It will also save them a substantial amount of money. It provides a more reliable operating platform with powerful User
Interface.”Features include a user-friendly installer, advanced User Interface with new theme, reliable Linux kernel v. 2.6, KDE 3.2.2 graphical desktop environment, Open Office, Evolution Email and other utilities. Professional
edition includes one year of phone and email support.Screenshots of the new slick interface can be viewed and downloaded at http://www.linare.com/screenshots.php
To purchase the $40 Linare Linux Professional Edition, corporations and government agencies can visit the Linare website at http://www.linare.com.
In order to facilitate the companies to get a feel for the Linux DesktopOperating System, Linare offers a free evaluation copy for a limited time
till the end of August, 2004.
Interesting. Looks like they are offering a free evaluation
copy. I would ask my company to go for that.
Cheers
It might be a matter of taste but those screenshots are UGLY. It looks like a weird (gone wrong) crossover between OSX’s Aqua and some WinXP background… and they want money for that?
I agree, the screenshots look pretty unprofessional.
Everything feels to shiny, and the icons clash with each other and the overall style.
Linaire Co. should play around with Mandrake 10 or Ximian Desktop 2 for a while. That should show them what a professional desktop ought to look like.
Luna mixed with Aqua, bad bad bad!
I can only laugh at that! Some modified keramik and that’s it. Why won’t we have a really decent and simple look for KDE?
Both icons and themes.
I cannot believe how they are modifying the K button and trying to push that as a new slick interface
Very unprofessional like everybody above pointed out.
And I thought keramik was a bad one (I prefer plastik)….. tsk… and it’s $40?
I might just be another open source zealot, but where are the sources for the anaconda modifications? Because the screenshots show a modified anaconda. The rest is only a mater of taste but the sources should be made available to the public.
and as long as they’re available to paying customers i’m happy enough with that. they don’t have to make sources available for free download to any and all comers.
> they don’t have to make sources available for free download to any and all comers.
on request to _any_ third party if they modified GPL or LGPL code.
AFAIK the GPL says they have to provide the soures to anybody who uses the binaries.
Does the GPL require that source code of modified versions be posted to the public?
The GPL does not require you to release your modified version. You are free to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them. This applies to organizations (including companies), too; an organization can make a modified version and use it internally without ever releasing it outside the organization.
But if you release the modified version to the public in some way, the GPL requires you to make the modified source code available to the program’s users, under the GPL.
From http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
It’s not the prettiest I’ve seen, and not the ugliest.
You’d think it would be obvious to these companies to hire a designer to design the look and feel of the Desktop.
If not for Susan Kare, MacOS and Windows wouldn’t have been as clean and consistent as they were…
Just take out one less ad, and hire a designer for a year to design themes, icons and even a special tuned font.
Its funny, the more each Linux distro tries to distinguish itself from one another the more they end up looking like Windows.
By making available a free evaluation copy, they pretty much have to make available the source. And of course, they can’t prevent someone who paid for the thing from posting the source online for free.
I think it looks cool. The free evaluation copy comes with a $7.00 shipping fee so it’s not TOTALLY free.
I don’t get this segment of the open source community that tries to copy everything that Microsoft (or Apple) does, even if it’s in bad taste or just plain bad. Go study some UI design principles and come up with your own original ideas.
If you look at the screen-shots, you see they’re running KDE. Check out the shots of GTK apps (GAIM, GIMP) and you’ll see they carry the same theme. Did they integrate the gtk-qt engine (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=9714)?
Anyway, yeah…the theme itself is borrowing too much from MS I think. Too shiny, too green.
looks good it seems that everyone seemsto like “lickable” interfaces now. Linare might be one to keep a lookout on because for cost it is cheaper than SuSE and the JDS
I don’t get this segment of the open source community that tries to copy everything that Microsoft (or Apple) does, even if it’s in bad taste or just plain bad.
Thats why we have GNOME.
You want a bastardized Windows UI on Linux by all means use KDE folks.
I read the comments before checking out the screenshots, I was expecting worse. They’re obviously going for a “like Windows” look. Not for me personally, but it seems to be popular now days. If you don’t look like windows, you’re too different, and people don’t want to use you. A shame really. I don’t think that their idea was all that bad, but some of those screenshots scream bloody murder. You can see seams all over, the maximize/minimize/close buttons look stretched to hell, they hardly touched buttons like open/close/save…
I really don’t understand companies that won’t hire a designer. I’m a programmer, I can make an interface that works, but I know that if I hire a designer to rearrange and pretty it up, it’ll work MUCH BETTER. If I can afford to hire a designer for my projects, I’d hope they could too.
they can charge for the source code to be distrobuted on CD’s or even include it with the Software itself no where in the GPL does it state the internet has to be the medium of source distribution
i guess i am the only one who likes the screen shots and desktop look…..wierd
Nope. I like the screenshots too 🙂
I also said I liked the desktop theme. We must be the exception….
>I don’t get this segment of the open source community that tries to copy >everything that Microsoft (or Apple) does, even if it’s in bad taste or just >plain bad. Go study some UI design principles and come up with your own >original ideas.
Amen to that.
It seems that the world has goten stuck in a specific kinda look, and it may be because of the desktop/windowed app metaphor. I dislike the whole 3D desktop thing too, it is just silly.
Has anyone looked into designing a Gnome Desktop designed long the principal of drawers?
Thats why we have GNOME.
You want a bastardized Windows UI on Linux by all means use KDE folks.
— Totally disagree. You GNOME folks have a way of taking digs at KDE — and nasty ones at that which are totally uncalled for. Its an american thing I guess since KDE originated in Germany and is a good project — probably the largest and well-integrated open-source project at that.
As for the bastardization, GNOME has more XP-ish and Aqua-ish themes that I can count on fingers of all the people in India (and China) … take a look at art.gnome.org … bah! and they call it art …