← Back to context Comment by guestbest 5 days ago Is this the spiritual successor to Lindows? 1 comment guestbest Reply lproven 5 days ago Lindows became Linspire.Because Microsoft sued over the name:https://www.networkcomputing.com/data-center-networking/micr...Linspire was paid-for, and later introduced Freespire as the free community version.https://practical-tech.com/2007/08/05/linspire-ceo-kevin-car...Remarkably enough, it is still available. I reviewed the then-latest version in 2023.https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/15/freespire-95-breezes-...It's a successor in name only; the company acquired the Freespire and Xandros brands. The product, sadly, is unrelated. (I say "sadly" because it had a pretty good desktop based on KDE 2.x.)But -- yes, you're right, it sort of is.
lproven 5 days ago Lindows became Linspire.Because Microsoft sued over the name:https://www.networkcomputing.com/data-center-networking/micr...Linspire was paid-for, and later introduced Freespire as the free community version.https://practical-tech.com/2007/08/05/linspire-ceo-kevin-car...Remarkably enough, it is still available. I reviewed the then-latest version in 2023.https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/15/freespire-95-breezes-...It's a successor in name only; the company acquired the Freespire and Xandros brands. The product, sadly, is unrelated. (I say "sadly" because it had a pretty good desktop based on KDE 2.x.)But -- yes, you're right, it sort of is.
Lindows became Linspire.
Because Microsoft sued over the name:
https://www.networkcomputing.com/data-center-networking/micr...
Linspire was paid-for, and later introduced Freespire as the free community version.
https://practical-tech.com/2007/08/05/linspire-ceo-kevin-car...
Remarkably enough, it is still available. I reviewed the then-latest version in 2023.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/15/freespire-95-breezes-...
It's a successor in name only; the company acquired the Freespire and Xandros brands. The product, sadly, is unrelated. (I say "sadly" because it had a pretty good desktop based on KDE 2.x.)
But -- yes, you're right, it sort of is.