Freespire – a community driven Linux distro from Linspire


Back few days ago, Linspire (formerly known as Lindows) has announced Freespire, a no-cost version of Linspire’s Linux distribution. According to them, Freespire will be a community-driven distribution, that will allow users to download a complete free and open source operating system, or the one that includes proprietary software.

However this is not the first time the idea of “Freespire” surfaced. Last year, a LiveCD called “Freespire” was distributed on the internet. That particular “Freespire” however was created by Andrew Betts based on source code from Linspire. These has created confusion among the users, and the project has changed it name to SquiggleOS before it went out of development recently.

The official beta release of Freespire from Linspire is scheduled to be available somewhere around August 2006. The screenshot of Freespire operating can be seen at the Freespire official website at http://freespire.org