Today we are going to tell you about a very old Linux Distro. You must have heard this name i.e. Lindows. Someone tried to make a linux based Windows OS. It was a strategic step to cash the name of Microsoft’s popular OS. But due to the name, Microsoft has killed the OS by the legal systems.
Lindows Suffers a lot on it’s Name
Now after all the events, it came back again with a new name “Linspire”. After the legal actions, Lindows gone from the spotlight. Without a good name, it is not easy to come in the world of so many Linux distros. The project was re-started in 2008, but was shutdown by the then owner Mr. Xandros. Now in 2018, it came back as FreeSpire 3.0 & Linspire 7.0.
Then renamed as FreeSpire & Linspire
The development team of Opensystems LLC has announced the Freespire 3.0 & Linspire 7.0. There are many similarities in both of them i.e. kernel & common utilities. The user base is different in both.
FreeSpire is an open source distribution for general linux community where all the open source components are available & no proprietary applications. But this is not limitation, as users of FreeSpire can install anything they want to with the use of our software center and extensive repositories,they wish.
Linspire is a commercial release which is made by FreeSpire foundation. It has no proprietary software for a student, researchers and developers. It is made to utilize cloud based web applications & other legacy software from our Debian or Ubuntu’s repositories.
Features of Freespire 3.0
- Kernel 4.10.0-42
- Firefox Quantum Web Browser
- Geary e-mail client
- Ice SSB
- Abiword
- Gnumeric
- Parole Media Player
- Pinta Graphics tool
- Font Manager
Features of Linspire 7.0
- Kernel 4.10.0-42
- Google Chrome
- Thunderbird e-mail with Calender,
- MS Exchange and Google Sync
- IceSSB
- LibreOffice
- Software Center
- VLC Media Player
- Rhythmbox
- Font Manager
- Wine integration
- VirtualBox Virtual Machine
- Â XFS, JFS, ZFS, BTRFS support
- .NET Core support
- ClamAV Virus Scanner
- Bleachbit
- Intrusion Detection System
- Integrated Build Environment
Linspire 6.0 and Freespire 3.0: Commercial and Free releases
If you are installing FreeSpire, then download from here.Linspire will cost you $79 which includes one year support of phone & e-mail. The other feature will be
- Custom ISO generation
- On-Site setup and auditing services
- Free Upgrade to major releases
- 10 percent off of all hardware purchases
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