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tlmiller
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 Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2025 6:27 pm Post subject: Freespire "email" |
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| Does anyone know where freespire has their "email" client (Thunderbird) set up to store your profile? Normally it's under /home/<your login>/.mozilla-thunderbird/ but not on Freespire. I'm trying to copy over my profile but can't for the life of me determine where in the world my profile has been created. Since they called it email I did try if there was a /home/<my login>/.email folder, there isn't.
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tlmiller
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| Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2025 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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Nevermind, found it right after hitting submit...
/home/<your login>/.lmail/
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lynch
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coastie
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2025 12:38 am Post subject: |
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seems like the average linux user would be lost with freespire  i don't think i'll be checking that one out  sometimes i feel that change is bad, similar to garth from wayne's world  |
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masinick
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2025 1:40 am Post subject: Re: Freespire "email" |
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| tlmiller wrote: | | Does anyone know where freespire has their "email" client (Thunderbird) set up to store your profile? Normally it's under /home/<your login>/.mozilla-thunderbird/ but not on Freespire. I'm trying to copy over my profile but can't for the life of me determine where in the world my profile has been created. Since they called it email I did try if there was a /home/<my login>/.email folder, there isn't. |
In general, when I run a browser or Email client for the first time, I invoke it quickly, exit, then check all of the hidden files and directories, looking for the most recent ones in particular.
The Firefox and Thunderbird clients seem to have many different names, such as firefox, mozilla-firefox, thunderbird, mozilla-thunderbird, and so forth.
With applications in general, for whatever the image name is called for the program, there is generally either a hidden file or a hidden directory by that same name.
In the case of Linspire, they've done a play on Apple with their "i" applications, iTunes, iPod, iMovie, etc. by creating "l" applications, lmail, lbrowser, etc.
I see in the case of the browser that they made it extra difficult for the novice to find the correct directory: ~/.linspire/lbrowser. |
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tlmiller
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2025 2:11 am Post subject: |
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| coastie wrote: | | seems like the average linux user would be lost with freespire i don't think i'll be checking that one out sometimes i feel that change is bad, similar to garth from wayne's world |
I don't know. Once you realize that you have to look for the hidden .lxxxxx directories, it's not that bad. And since CNR is now free, you can get a pretty decent system set up. The only thing I've had to dpkg for was my Opera, since I can't survive any system that doesn't have Opera on it (Konqueror, Mozilla or Firefox simply don't cut it for me). Other than the fact that all the CNR links for programs I'll never want are still in the menu (I wish there was a 1 click way of removing them) Freespire is actually quite nice. I'm not sure if I like it as much as SimplyMepis, but I've been using them side by side all day (Mepis on my C640 laptop, Freespire on my P4 2.8/1 G/40 SATA + 40 IDE/ XGI Volari V3 128 MB/ Intel onboard sound desktop) and they're both pretty nice. Freespire has more campaigns for Battle of Wesnoth on CNR than Ubuntu repositories do, but Mepis doesn't use SUDO (I'm not a big fan of SUDO).
Honestly, if you're a fan of the "install and use, no configuration needed" style of distro (such as I am any more), either/or will work for you. Freespire will, IMO, require a little more setup due to having to set up a real root account. Also, Freespire lacks in that it can only be set up at install as a single partition + Swap OS, can't set multiple mountpoints on install.
| masinick wrote: | | tlmiller wrote: | | Does anyone know where freespire has their "email" client (Thunderbird) set up to store your profile? Normally it's under /home/<your login>/.mozilla-thunderbird/ but not on Freespire. I'm trying to copy over my profile but can't for the life of me determine where in the world my profile has been created. Since they called it email I did try if there was a /home/<my login>/.email folder, there isn't. |
In general, when I run a browser or Email client for the first time, I invoke it quickly, exit, then check all of the hidden files and directories, looking for the most recent ones in particular.
The Firefox and Thunderbird clients seem to have many different names, such as firefox, mozilla-firefox, thunderbird, mozilla-thunderbird, and so forth.
With applications in general, for whatever the image name is called for the program, there is generally either a hidden file or a hidden directory by that same name.
In the case of Linspire, they've done a play on Apple with their "i" applications, iTunes, iPod, iMovie, etc. by creating "l" applications, lmail, lbrowser, etc.
I see in the case of the browser that they made it extra difficult for the novice to find the correct directory: ~/.linspire/lbrowser. |
Never thought of doing that before, normally they're all in pretty self-explanatory directories (.mozilla-thunderbird or .thunderbird, as you said) and don't require much thinking.
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I just put out another post on Freespire. You may want to check it out.
It took me almost two years to search and find a "live" distro that would work in this HP-64 zv6000 laptop. Only Freespire was able to find and use the Broadcom wireless card in this machine. And I didn't even have to mess around with "ndiswrapper"! So if you have a laptop that is very Linux resistant like this machine, this particular distro may be your salvation. Especially when it comes to wireless networking. I don't believe that this problem would apply to desktop machines, since more choices are available for networking. Freespire seems to be the most complete distro that I've seen for effortless wireless networking. All the others that I've tried have all failed in this category.
I also didn't have any problem of assigning a password for root and also creating a non-privileged user, with his own password. The problem that I encountered so far, is that it boots up "mute". It can't find the "JACK" sound server that it is supposed to use. Even though the web browser is supposed to be Firefox, they dumbed it down, with less features, and made it plain. But being the fact that it is a Debian derivitave, there seems to be no shortage of software selections. And now that the CNR is free, it is a nice way to download and get what you want, instantly installed without any dependencies hassles. It is a nice distro for someone who likes to be a "user", and not a constant Linux repair mechanic. I didn't see any eye-candy with this distro, but I did find relaible functionality.
Cheers!
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masinick
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2025 2:35 am Post subject: I think it is first rate too! |
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| onederer wrote: | I just put out another post on Freespire. You may want to check it out.
It took me almost two years to search and find a "live" distro that would work in this HP-64 zv6000 laptop. Only Freespire was able to find and use the Broadcom wireless card in this machine. And I didn't even have to mess around with "ndiswrapper"! So if you have a laptop that is very Linux resistant like this machine, this particular distro may be your salvation. Especially when it comes to wireless networking. I don't believe that this problem would apply to desktop machines, since more choices are available for networking. Freespire seems to be the most complete distro that I've seen for effortless wireless networking. All the others that I've tried have all failed in this category.
I also didn't have any problem of assigning a password for root and also creating a non-privileged user, with his own password. The problem that I encountered so far, is that it boots up "mute". It can't find the "JACK" sound server that it is supposed to use. Even though the web browser is supposed to be Firefox, they dumbed it down, with less features, and made it plain. But being the fact that it is a Debian derivitave, there seems to be no shortage of software selections. And now that the CNR is free, it is a nice way to download and get what you want, instantly installed without any dependencies hassles. It is a nice distro for someone who likes to be a "user", and not a constant Linux repair mechanic. I didn't see any eye-candy with this distro, but I did find relaible functionality.
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The two distros where I have been spending the most time lately are SimplyMEPIS (which became my #1 distro when Libranet died off, SimplyMEPIS had been my desktop friendly alternative to Libranet, my "do-it-all" distro), and Freespire, the distro that makes an honest attempt to set everything up in a way that makes the system immediately useful, even for a non technical consumer. Both MEPIS and Freespire do that very well.
Xandros is another contender for those who are willing to purchase software. It is much cheaper than going out and buying any Microsoft software, yet it works very well and is arguably among the most familiar looking to Windows converts. Linux hard cores who are against anything that Microsoft does won't like it, but would be converters might be well served.
Between Xandros, SimplyMEPIS, and Freespire, there are some really viable options out there. If you are not a frequent package updater, using a commercialized Novell version of either SUSE, SLED, or one of the SUSE derivations is another option.
Hobbyists would do well to go with a Ubuntu version; hobbyists who like a lot of preconfigured stuff might be interested to know that you can start with SimplyMEPIS 6.0, turn on the Ubuntu backed repositories and turn SimplyMEPIS into a Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/SimplyMEPIS hybrid really easily, or you can leave it as is; it is quite functional either way. |
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