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First Impressions of Freespire 1.0

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tapping-a-market dept.

Nate writes "Freespire 1.0 was released a few days ago, taking the desktop-oriented Linspire distribution and making it freely available (as in beer) to the world. Linux Format has some first impressions of the release, focusing on its much-trumpeted media playback facilities thanks to codec licensing. Flash, Java, DVD and WMV support out-the-box — could this climb to the top of the desktop distro ladder?"

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  1. FP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    But does it run on li... err nevermind

  2. If Linspire were still Lindows.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...would this distro be named Freedows? I don't think Frito Lay would be very happy about that.

  3. Re:OK, just how GPL compliant is it??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Uh, we already have apt...