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Linspire and Freespire Linux OSes Now Patched Against Meltdown and Spectre Flaws

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Marius Nestor
Jan 15, 2018

The developer released Linspire 7.0.1, Freespire 3.0.1, Linspire Cloud 7.0.1, Linspire Embedded 7.0.1, and Linspire HPC 7.0.1 new ISOs, which include the patches needed to mitigate the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerability that have been publicly disclosed earlier this month, affecting billions of devices. Linspire 7.0 and Freespire 3.0 were announced in the first days of 2018, as Roberto J. Dohnert is the new owner of these long-forgotten GNU/Linux distributions. Formerly known as Lindows, Linspire was very popular more than a decade ago and was, available to buy from various stores around the world.

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Marius Nestor

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