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Linux.com: First Look: Freespire

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“Freespire is the free offshoot of the proprietary Linspire
Linux distribution, formerly an outside effort, but now produced by
the company itself. The first beta release is available through the
Freespire Web site, both as an CD-sized burnable ISO image and as a
VMware Virtual Appliance. Despite its youth and inexperience, it
already exhibits considerable polish.

“Freespire is Debian-derived and uses KDE as its desktop
environment. Both the beta and eventual 1.0 release are based on
KDE 3.3 and the 2.6.13 kernel. According to the roadmap, these
older components were selected in order to speed up delivery;
shortly after Freespire is officially declared 1.0, newer versions
of all the major components will go into the testing branch for
Freespire 1.1…”

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