Linspire Launches Free Version of Desktop Linux

Linspire on Monday announced plans to offer a no-cost version of the firm’s operating system called Freespire. Kevin Carmony, Linspire’s President and CEO, unveiled the Freespire project in his keynote address at the 4th Annual Desktop Linux Summit in San Diego.

In his remarks, Carmony explained how Freespire is a community driven and developed project, but unique for open source Linux distributions in that it will allow users the choice to download a version that is 100 percent open source or one that includes proprietary software. The first beta release of the operating system to be made available for download in August.

“Freespire is about choice,” Carmony said. “The user should be free to decide what software they want to install on their systems, be that proprietary or open source.”

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