Today the development team at PC/Opensystems LLC is pleased to announce the release of Freespire 3.0 and Linspire 7.0.
While both contain common kernel and common utilities, they are targeted towards two different user bases. Freespire is a FOSS distribution geared for the general Linux community, making use of only open source components, containing no proprietary applications. This is not necessarily a limitation : through our software center and extensive repositories, Freespire users can install any application that they wish.
Linspire is a commercial release which builds on the elegant Freespire foundation. It does include a proprietary software set optimized for business users, students, researchers and developers. It is a capable solution for utilizing cloud-based web apps as well as legacy software from our Debian or Ubuntu’s repositories.
For educational facilities and agencies that have older hardware to re-purpose we offer Linspire Embedded; this contains a web browser, media player and the core Freespire / Linspire app selection.
So what features does each contain?
Let’s start with Freespire; it contains the following applications and features:
- Kernel 4.10.0-42
- Firefox Quantum Web Browser
- Geary e-mail client
- Ice SSB
- Abiword
- Gnumeric
- Parole Media Player
- Pinta Graphics tool
- Font Manager
Linspire contains the following applications and features:
- Kernel 4.10.0-42
- Google Chrome
- Thunderbird e-mail with Calender, MS Exchange and Google Sync
- IceSSB
- LibreOffice
- Software Center
- VLC Media Player
- Rhythmbox
- Font Manager
- Wine integration for running some Windows applications
- VirtualBox Virtual Machine
- XFS, JFS, ZFS, BTRFS support
- .NET Core support
- ClamAV Virus Scanner
- Bleachbit
- Intrusion Detection System
- Integrated Build Environment
When you purchase Linspire you also get 12 months of e-mail and phone support and businesses with their license purchase are entitled to the following services:
- Custom ISO generation
- On-Site setup and auditing services
- Free Upgrade to major releases
- 10% off of all hardware purchases
This Freespire 3.0 is supported until 2021. Linspire 7.0 is supported until 2025.
You can download Freespire from our FOSS development labs
Freespire Info Page
http://distro.ibiblio.org/blacklab/freespire/freespire-3-x64.iso
http://distro.ibiblio.org/blacklab/freespire/freespire-3-x64.iso.md5
http://distro.ibiblio.org/blacklab/freespire/freespire-3-x64.iso.sha256
You can purchase Linspire licenses from our webstore and preloaded on workstations. More information on Linspire is available from the distribution’s page.
