Linux distribution: Freespire de Linspire in version 2.0 2007-08-08
One year very right after the release of a version 1.0, Freespire is available in a grinding 2.0 with like first notable change, the passage of Debian with Ubuntu and in fact Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) as bases this free distribution sponsored by the Linspire company, known for its commercial distribution of the same name.
In order to facilitate the experiment user, the choice was made integrate in all legality into Freespire, of the pilots (graphics boards ATI and nVIDIA, Wi-Fi,…), codecs (reading of files MP3, Windows Media,…) and applications (Java, Flash, Acrobat Adobe,…) owners. Charge with the user with deciding on their installation or not. In addition, thanks to the agreement of partnership made between Linspire and Microsoft, the catch of load (opening and edition) under the office automation continuation OpenOffice.org of the documents Word 2007 recorded with the format Open XML (.docx) is ensured via the addition of translators.
Via plugin CNR related to technology éponyme of installation of an application in a click (Click Run), the users of Freespire have access to thousands of applications Open Source or not like the reading of DVD, the StarOffice continuation from Sun, Parallels Workstation, Win4Lin, CodeWeaver' S CrossOver Office, TransGaming' S Cedega. For recall, Linspire signed a technological partnership with Canonical about CNR of which a free customer should make his appearance in other distributions (Debian, Fedora, openSUSE.
