“Freespire is one of those distros that I’m always being
recommended to try, so this week instead of reviewing a brand new
release I’m stepping back to try Freespire 2.0.3 and see how it
measures up.“Freespire is a community involved release, touted as being
Linspire but free (hence the name). This version (2.0.3) started
life as Ubuntu 7.04 (nearly a year old now) and that’s a pretty
decent release to start with. However extra features are added
including KDE for a more intuitive interface, CNR Plugin for
one-click installs to thousands of applications, proprietary codecs
and drivers…”