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This showed up on one of my mailing lists, don't know if it's a bug or what, but you can feed it a bogus email if you wish and still get the download.

I would still recommend Ubuntu or Debian for my patients who choose Linux, but Linspire's installer is fairly bonehead-proof for Grandma's across the nation. Security-wise, I would opt for Ubuntu... But free is free, especially when it usually costs money, eh?

Instructions:

Go to www.linspire.com/buy2
Click "no, Buy linspire"
Scroll down to the 2nd entry(Just Linspire 4.5,not the bundle) click
"buy now"
Remove any physical linspire copies. Just get a digital copy.
Click apply coupon
On the coupon screen, enter "LINDOWS" as your coupon.
click update
click continue
The amount should be free!
Click check out.
Make a new account.
Then download your copy of Linspire for free. Normally it's $49.99.

From the makers of the XBMC Media Center for the XBox comes Media Portal! Makes Windows Media Center look pretty weak, just like M$'s lame Media Player add-on for the XBox.

FREE FREE FREE FREE!!! But you do need a fairly killer box to run it on, which I don't have. It runs but not well on the POS box I have to test with. Bummer. New hardware in my future....

NOTE: This got slashdotted, so it's fairly slow going.

Very slick 3D traceroute program! There's a pro version too that does a bit more than the free one. Good for insane server admins everywhere!

Get it here!