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Linspire Announces Freespire Distribution

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the let's-muddy-the-waters-a-bit dept.

LinuxScribe writes "Is the world ready for another community Linux distro a là Fedora and openSUSE? We're about to find out, as Linspire used the Desktop Linux Summit to announce a community-driven version of Linspire, to be called Freespire. But here's the twist, Freespire will come in two flavors: a completely open source version and a version that includes all of the fully-licensed proprietary apps, drivers, and codecs in Linspire."

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  1. Linux is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Take that BSD bashing linux zealots!

  2. Re:To beat an analogy to death Word play? by poopdeville · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fuck off. That was really lame.

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