Linspire Releases Freespire 2.0 Linux Operating System | Linux Today

Linspire Releases Freespire 2.0 Linux Operating System

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 8, 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 Freespire 2.0, the latest version of the free
desktop Linux operating system. Building on the best of open source
software using Ubuntu as its baseline, Freespire 2.0 adds legally
licensed proprietary drivers, codecs, and applications in its core
distribution, to provide a better user experience. Freespire 2.0
(http://www.freespire.org) also continues to offer users the
ability to choose what software they want installed on their
computer, without limitations or restrictions, as a result, making
available proprietary software where there are no viable open
source alternatives.

“Freespire is able to provide improved out-of-the-box hardware,
file type, and multimedia support, such as MP3, Windows Media, Real
Networks, Java, Flash, ATI, nVidia, WiFi, and many more…”


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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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