Freespire
Sign in to saveFreespire is a community-driven Linux distribution currently owned by PC/Open Systems LLC. It is derived from Linspire and is composed mostly of free, open source software, while providing users the choice of including proprietary software including multimedia codecs, device drivers and application software.
Key facts
- OS.name
- Freespire
- OS.logo
- 250px
- OS.caption
- Freespire 9.0 running Xfce 4.18
- OS.developer
- PC/Open Systems LLC
- OS.family
- Linux (Unix-like)
- OS.source_model
- Open source (with optional proprietary components)
- OS.license
- Free software licenses (mostly GPL) with optional proprietary-licensed components
- OS.kernel_type
- Monolithic kernel
- OS.ui
- KDE Plasma (versions 1.8.2 onward)
- OS.working_state
- Revived/Current
- OS.supported_platforms
- x86-64
- OS.language
- English
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Freespire is a community-driven Linux distribution currently owned by PC/Open Systems LLC. It is derived from Linspire and is composed mostly of free, open source software, while providing users the choice of including proprietary software including multimedia codecs, device drivers and application software.
Freespire 1.0 was based on Debian, while Freespire 2.0 was based on Ubuntu. Linspire was bought by Xandros, who originally planned to switch back to Debian for future Freespire releases.
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