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You can find them in my earlier TechBuilder recipe "Cloning a Linux Hard Drive". The current version of Keep (available via CNR as of this writing as version 0.3) is the version with the bug.įor non-GUI backups, I've written backup bash shell scripts for rsync and dar which should be usable by any user computer-literate enough to type a program name into a command line. Keep 0.4 (with the bug fix) is available now as a build-from-source program at the Keep Project page. The good news is that Keep-available via Click and Run (CNR), the user-friendly, single-click automated installer-will probably turn into a good drive-mirror solution based on rdiff-backup as soon as one major bug is fixed.

More to the point, the great majority of users don't demand backup capability.Īlso, while Linux offers excellent core command-line components for backup like rsync (drive mirroring) and dar (creates compressed backup sets for C/DVD backup), dar doesn't have a good GUI yet.

#TURBOPRINT 2 LINUX WINDOWS#

What about backup solutions? I'd include that, except that Windows doesn't have a built-in backup solution out of the box, either. Linspire has it out of the box, and Freespire can easily be upgraded to provide it.

Wireless support: Especially for laptop owners.īoth Freespire and Linspire do an excellent job of providing this functionality.

Digicam support: No longer optional, as this is also in the "expected" category for either business or personal use.

Multimedia: Any home/SOHO user expects it, and corporations increasingly deliver multimedia internal content to their own employees.

Standard Checklist for Desktop OS FunctionalityĪn OS needs to either support the following features out-of-the-box, or be easily upgradeable to provide these functions: The big difference between Linspire (paid) and Freespire (community supported) is that Freespire, unlike Linspire, doesn't do multimedia out-of-the box

#TURBOPRINT 2 LINUX HOW TO#

In this Recipe, I'll discuss what Linspire and Freespire actually do, and show you how to set up Freespire for full multimedia. And both come with a good set of built-in applications that can easily be added to. Linspire and Freespire are both inherently immune from Windows malware. Both also offer good solutions for customers who are tired of dealing with Windows' stability and security issues-or who would like to add multimedia features for work or play.