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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. *~shudder~* by showardkid · · Score: 4, Funny

    You mixed that up, man. There's an accent on 'a' and not on 'la'. It's "à la". Yes, I'm a Foreign Language nazi.

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    1. Re:*~shudder~* by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes, I'm a Foreign Language nazi.

      But I thought that à la was French, not German... :-/

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  2. To beat an analogy to death by uberjoe · · Score: 4, Funny

    They should call them Beerspire and Speechspire.

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  3. Nice... by advs89 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think I'll be the first to say that I like this idea.





    Well, I don't actually... I just thought it would be cool to be the first to say that.

    -Advs89

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  4. Re:Oh My Gosh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah. There should just be one, really good distro. I'm gonna go over to Distrowatch and start a new "one-size-fits-all" distro to combat this too-many-distros problem.

  5. Re:now more than 500 distros by abscissa · · Score: 5, Funny

    The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

  6. Plan 9 is better by bizzynut · · Score: 4, Funny

    Plan 9 offers a completely usable, modern desktop. So there is no need for Linspire.

  7. And what if they hadn't changed their name? by bflong · · Score: 3, Funny

    Would that give us freedows?

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  8. Evolution by the+darn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lindows -> Linspire -> Freespire
    So, if they hadn't been forced to change, would this new distro be called Freedows? The mascot could have been the Freedow Bandido!

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    1. Re:Evolution by Godji · · Score: 2, Funny

      What, are you suggesting they call the community version "Freexxxx"? But that already exists! It's all over the Internet!!

  9. Ubuntuspire... by blankoboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Too little too late. Linspire sees Ubuntu becoming the popular girl at school so now she'll sleep with anyone for free.

    1. Re:Ubuntuspire... by rolfwind · · Score: 3, Funny

      Can I have her number?

  10. Well, you see, this works... by hackwrench · · Score: 4, Funny

    French is a foreign language in Germany, too!

  11. Re:I wonder what's up by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

    "embracing the community" is a good way to get smelly.

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  12. How many PCs can this crash? by crossmr · · Score: 3, Funny

    Linspire the only distrobution to lock up both VMware and the host system.
    I think that really says all that needs to be said.

  13. Shouldn't we just..'uhm, put bags on our heads? by NRAdude · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Workers of Earth, I bring you good tidings...of Peanuts and Beer."

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  14. Re:To beat an analogy to death Word play? by davidsyes · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well if this project gets really COLD, it'll be FREEZEpire.

    If it gets really HOT, it'll be FreesPYRE.

    If it sucks the life from other distros, it'll be VAMpire.

    If it flat-out dies off, it'll EXpire.

    If it continues to live, it'll REspire.

    If it has a kernel panic, it might PERspire.

    If it woos it's intended audience, then may it TRANCEpire

    But, hopefully, it'll be really NEAT, and good things will TRANSpire...

    (C) David Syes, 2006-04-24 2025

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  15. Re:First Beta in August 2006? by aardvarkjoe · · Score: 2, Funny
    They're announcing a Linux distribution that won't be available for download in BETA for another 4 months?
    Why not? We've been hearing about UserLinux every couple months for a few years, from a distribution that hasn't produced anything useful.
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