Linspire Goes For Ubuntu

Posted by Michael Larabel on February 08, 2007

Linspire/Freespire and Canonical (Ubuntu) today have announced a technology partnership. Linspire and Freespire will be moving from a Debian based over to Ubuntu. However, Linspire will continue to be loaded with proprietary codecs and other software packages. More information is available in the press release.
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