Linspire 6.0 Desktop Linux Operating System Released | Linux Today

Linspire 6.0 Desktop Linux Operating System Released

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 10, 2007

” Linspire, Inc., developer of the Linspire commercial and
Freespire community desktop Linux operating systems and CNR.com, a
free Linux software delivery service, today announced the immediate
availability of Linspire 6.0, the latest commercial release of the
desktop Linux operating system. Building on the best of open source
software using Ubuntu as its base line, Linspire 6.0 adds licensed
proprietary drivers, codecs, and software in its core distribution
to provide a better user experience. The first commercial release
from Linspire, Inc. in over two years, Linspire 6.0 continues its
traditional focus on ease-of-use and bundles proprietary software
where there are no viable open source alternatives, providing
improved hardware, file type, and multimedia support, such as MP3,
Real, Java, Flash, ATI, nVidia, WiFi, and many more. Linspire 6.0
is also the first commercial release to incorporate several
technologies from Microsoft including Windows Media, True Type
Fonts, as well as Open XML translators that allow OpenOffice to
open and edit Microsoft Word .docx formatted documents…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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