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Linspire 5.0 Free For Limited Time

Posted by Zonk on from the free-as-in-beer dept.

drunkennewfiemidget writes "The people at Linspire are giving Linspire 5.0 away for free (digital download only) until September 6th. Simply go to purchase the $49.95 digital edition, and then enter coupon code 'freespire' to receive a $49.95 discount." From the site: "'Freespire' was the term Andrew Betts gave to a private project he had been working on. The project comprised various open source components, taken from the freely available source repository for the Linspire operating system...Linspire has no problem with anyone using the open source code from our operating system - in fact we applaud such projects. The name Freespire, however, did create some confusion in the short time it was used...We thought it would be fun, for all of those who were looking at this project to experience a true 'Freespire', to give away a free digital copy of Linspire for a few days!"

8 of 302 comments (clear)

  1. n/t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, BeOS did this right before they died too.

  2. Poor server... by doxology · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks like server suicide to me...

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    sigfault. core dumped.
  3. Digital Download? by Ryan+Huddleston · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was hoping for the analog one...

    1. Re:Digital Download? by Heem · · Score: 4, Funny

      they have that too.. you call a phone number and a customer service rep reads you the source code, line by line.

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      Don't Tread on Me
  4. Slashdotted already by ahecht · · Score: 4, Funny

    What, were they running the server on Linspire?

  5. Freedows by Theovon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, Lindows had to change its name to Linspire, because it was too much like Windows. Well, now Freespire is too much like Linspire. So how about we call it Freedows?

    Mind you, Frito-Lay might raise an eyebrow.

  6. Slashdot to the rescue! by minus9 · · Score: 4, Funny



    A freely available operating system for PCs. Why slashdot you've done it again!

    Whatever will you chaps come up with next.

    We dream of the day when telegrams may be sent around the world for the price of a local telephone call. God bless you technological pioneers and God speed to your radical new endeavours.

    I just noticed you say it's available in "digital form" too. Why I almost vommited my evening dose of laudenum in excitement.

    Once again slashdot has lowered me to the lowest form of wit.

  7. Re:It could be worse. by jlarocco · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, what would be worse is naming all the variables and functions things like "plus", "times", "leftParen", "greaterThan", "rightBracket"...:

    if (leftParen >= (plus + lessThan(minus) + lessThan * plus )) {
    ...

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    Maybe not