From the time Linspire was founded, about 5 years ago, they have been very busy laying the groundwork with the OEM and retail channels with their commercial, consumer-focused Linspire product. Linspire wanted to make sure that they had a sound and viable business model before exposing the community to another open source project.

Linspire has been a long-time supporter of many open source projects, such as: Debian, Mozilla/Firefox, Nvu, Lsongs, Lphoto, libipod, ReiserFS, GAIM, KDE, KDE-look, Kopete, K3B, and so on. (Visit www.linspire.com/opensource for a complete listing.) Linspire wanted to extend that work to the entire operating system by creating a community-driven project to help us with our work. Work that goes into Debian, Ubuntu, Freespire, and so on, all finds its way into our commercial Linspire product line.

No. Because Freespire is a community project, everyone can help with testing, have access to all releases, and so on.

Linspire is known for its ease of use and consumer focus. Freespire, by comparison, is designed with the Linux community and developer in mind. The Freespire project is also the baseline for Linspire development, and is more experimental (read: at times unstable) in nature. Here are some example differences between Linspire and Freespire: Mostly open source but with the option of proprietary drivers, codecs and applications or 100% open source

Simply put - to get farther, faster. As mentioned previously, Linux distributions are simply variations on core Linux packages and technology. The Ubuntu community has done an exceptional job of utilizing the Debian system and creating a solid foundation for desktop Linux, with fast-paced development cycles, significant programming tools, and an active developer community.

Work on the changeover will begin immediately. The next versions of both Freespire (ver. 2.x) and Linspire (ver. 6.x) will be based on Ubuntu. Yes, Freespire 2.0 was originally slated to be finished Q1 2007, but will shift slightly to Q2 of 2007 to allow the necessary time to complete this transition and to follow the official release of Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) in April.

No...not any more than Linspire/Freespire looks like a pure Debian distribution now. Linspire will continue doing all the unique things that are important to its target users (ease of use, CNR, proprietary drivers and codecs, OEM program, etc.). This change is more at the underlying, core level rather than the UI. By working together with the Ubuntu community, we can better focus our collective resources on the common issues of hardware support, networking, installing, applications, etc.

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Linspire and Freespire are designed exclusively for desktop use. (Ubuntu is also designed to work for servers.) Linspire and Freespire designed their user interface to feel comfortable for users familiar with or migrating from Microsoft Windows. Linspire and Freespire include proprietary codecs, drivers and applications for out-of-the-box hardware and multimedia support. Linspire and Freespire are targeted at non-technical users and accordingly take ease of use to an extreme.

The story goes that the idea for RollingForAutism was drummed up by Dan Tatar during a lunch break this past summer. Realizing that his college years were coming to an end and the “real world” was right around the corner, Tatar decided that he needed to take on one last adventure before settling down. Tatar picked up the phone and called Jason Ortolano with the idea of a cross country skate.

with all Linux distributions, Linspire and Freespire are created from the work of hundreds of individuals and open source projects. Linspire takes this baseline of work, and then supplements it with thousands of lines of additional code to glue everything together in a way consistent with their intended audience. In the past, the Linspire and Freespire operating systems have been based directly on the Debian Linux distribution.

Ubuntu defaults to GNOME, but also supports KDE. (Kubuntu is a KDE-based version of Ubuntu.) Linspire still prefers, and will continue defaulting to, the KDE desktop environment for target users of the Linspire and Freespire operating systems. Linspire will also continue making the numerous enhancements it does to KDE that make it more ideal for their target users.

Yes. The Linspire/Freespire Roadmaps will be updated in the near future to reflect any expected changes.

The Local Government in Scotland Act 2003 placed a legal obligation on local authorities to facilitate the community planning process as well as a duty to participate on all public and statutory bodies. You may have a virus or possibly your computer has been targetted by spyware. We have a page of information about viruses and spyware, with advice on how to remove them and how to keep your computer safe.

Remember that Weasley/Lovegood family tree JK Rowling released that had everyone in an uproar? That was it. I wanted those future kids to play with my muses who would be like "I married who and did what? No way." and thus ensuing chaos. Apply some well known Harry Potter RPG fandom ideas and you have tesseract

The Freespire project has been in the works for almost two years, and we're excited to see it finally come to life.

Not at all. While there will likely be more collaboration between the Ubuntu and Freespire communities, as we try to address certain core problems together, Freespire will remain very much a unique project with its own goals, objectives, and community.

The name comes from the founders of the company, widows and widowers, who found one another in chat rooms on America Online. See also our History page.

Freedom of choice. Freespire believes the user should be free to choose what software they want to run on their computer. The user should be able to easily choose from both open source software, as well as legally obtained 3rd-party proprietary offerings. For example, Freespire lets each individual user decide if they want to use OpenOffice (free, open source), StarOffice (purchased, commercial, proprietary), or any number of other office suite solutions. The choice is yours.

In 2005, about 5000 citizens participated in one-on-one interviews, a series of Leadership Workshops and a large Regional Town Meeting. In other words, ordinary citizens developed and prioritized the challenges that are the beginning point of the Community Conversations.

Construction of the COSMIX project began on July 5, 2005 and the Contractor, Rockrimmon Constructors, is required to complete construction by the end of 2007.

More than 240 lease agreements with tenants in the three-block development area had to be individually negotiated before work could begin. These negotiations, along with the complex nature of mixed-use development and the constraints of existing buildings on the two blocks, have made it necessary to proceed very carefully in the planning process.

Linspire, previously known as LindowsOS is a Linux distribution based on Debian. Linspire's focus is on easy-of-use for the home, school and business markets.

Freespire is a community-driven, Linux-based operating system that combines the best that free, open source software has to offer (community driven, freely distributed, open source code, etc.), but also provides users the choice of including proprietary codecs, drivers and applications as they see fit. With Freespire, the choice is yours as to what software is installed on your computer, with no limitations or restrictions placed on that choice.

This unusual project evolved out of taxidermy. Through the re-mounting of 4 of the 23 preserved Quaggas between 1969 and 1981 and the examination of 22 of the preserved specimens, mainly in 1971, Reinhold Rau got to closely observe the Quagga's morphology.

The participants in the Western Electronic Product Stewardship Initiative (WEPSI), which took place in 2001 through 2002 (http://www.wepsi.org), proposed that methods be explored to provide a marketplace reward for products that embody superior environmental attributes.

NCYM members were surveyed and area meetings were held in May/June 2003 to gather information about what people valued and considered important about Quaker Lake. The results indicated the need to build a new multi-purpose building, which will have more capabilities and be more cost effective. Survey responses indicated a clear need for a separate building with more capabilities and space. The lodge will be renovated with new bathrooms and additional sleeping quarters.

Linspire and Ubuntu first started casual discussions about ways to work together a few years back, but started more formal discussions on ways to work together over the past year.

Back in late 2005, Andrew Betts, a member of Linspire's Insiders Program, did an experimental project of creating a distro based on all the open source Linspire code, but leaving out the proprietary pieces (MP3, Flash, Java, etc.). Ironically, he gave his project the nickname of "Freespire," not knowing that Linspire had already started work on a same-named project.