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The Desktop
The desktop is full of nice surprises. Although most ideas were taken from Microsoft Windows operating systems, they are good and handy for the user. For instance, the desktop features "My Documents" and "My Computer" within the home folder of the user. In "My Computer" the user can access other partitions and devices. When I tested Freespire, I was happy to see that automatically mounted my ext3, ntfs, and fat32 partitions in there, and I was able to access their content without any configuration.
The K menu is semi transparent. It shows both recently opened documents and recently used applications by default. To make more space for the help and search features it doesn't put the applications directly at the first level, but within a menu item called "Run Programs". Once I got used to it I though it was a good idea.
The file manager is also very useful and well designed. Access to files and devices is easy and fast.
The terminal is easy to launch. It was placed by default in the panel, next to the file manager, the web browser, the email reader, the messenger and a "show desktop" button which minimizes all windows on the desktop.
Hardware Recognition
Chances are that your hardware will work fine with it. This comes with a lot of drivers for ATI and Nvidia cards, but also winmodems and wifi cards (Madwifi and Ralink drivers).
Launch Menus
Easy to use launch menus. Easy access to all your programs, files, help and configuration settings.
Default set of Applications
Includes customized versions of Firefox Web Browser, Thunderbird Main and Gaim Instant Messenger. They come pre-installed with spell checking and translators. OpenOffice 2.0.3 is also included. The customizations made to these software applications are quite nice and they make the use of email and web browsing very pleasant.
Complete Office Suite (100% MS Office compatable)
Come with lots of applications pre-installed including OpenOffice which contains a word processor (Writer), spread sheet (Calc), drawing (Draw), presentation(Impress) and database (Base).
Picture Editor
Full feature picture editor which allows you to Import (supports hundreds of digital cameras), reduce red eye, email pictures, create slide shows, sort and manage albums, enhance color, crop pictures, export pictures and more...
Networking
Comes in it default version with the Madwifi and Ralink drivers for wireless cards. It also comes with HSF and HCF drivers for winmodems.
There is a little applet which is included by default in the system tray. It's called the network connection manager". It basically monitors your network devices and shows their connection status. You can use that tool to quickly join a wireless network, switch between two network devices or even manage network profiles. Through network profiles you can configure which devices you want to use and how they get configured depending on the profile. For instance, you may want to use both wifi and Ethernet cards through static addressing at home, but only the Ethernet card through DHCP at work. The Network Connection Manager allows you to define these profiles and it can even switch automatically between profiles for you. It's a very handy tool.
Another great tool is the Network Share Manager. It scans the samba/windows shares on the network and allows you to connect to them. If a share becomes unavailable, the tool remembers it but simply changes its status to offline. With this Network Share Manager you can define shares to be connected at startup and they automatically appear in the "Network Shares" within "My Computer".
Package Management
The default way to install and update software is called CNR (Click and Run). It's a great invention which allows the user to browse catalogs of software and install them by simply clicking on them. I had a look at CNR and it looked very good and easy to use. However when I tried to install my first program, I realized that CNR was not free. You can get a trial period for it by registering some details and if you like it you can pay an annual fee to have the privilege to use it. Although it looked quite nice it didn't convince me one bit and I decided to go away from it.
Most Linux distributions decided to give everything they could to the community. By becoming popular and by attracting users they could then provide paid support to the companies.
I am a firm believer in the fact that APT is the greatest package manager of all. It comes with APT. Of course, tools such as synaptic, adept or aptitude are not installed by default, by they are easily added through the use of apt-get.
Within the K Menu, a little detail caught my attention. Under each software category (Internet, Multimedia...etc) a little sub-menu called "CNR More" shows you the applications that you could install through CNR in that category. For instance, in the "Web Authoring" menu, NVU (which is installed by default) appears... and next to it a "CNR More" sub-menu shows "Amaya", "Bluefish", "Quanta Plus"... etc. I thought this was a great idea, as it shows the user what tools he could install when he needs them.
Internet Tools
Award winning FireFox Internet Browser and Thunderbird Email Client. Gaim Instant Messaging which works with AOL, MSN and Yahoo,
Control Panel
Easy access and management of your computers configuration from display resolution, themes, networking, and more ....
Music Download & CD/DVD Burner
Familiar Start Menus make using linux Easy for people that are used to Windows
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Easy installation 15 minutes (with 1000mhz or better, with lower time will very according to processor speed)
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Easy and automated dual boot
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Easy-to-use and user-friendly graphical interface
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Automatic hardware detection and configuration*
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Fun games
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Easy access to your Windows® drives
*most peripherals supported
Linux is compatible with your existing file formats
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