SOURCE: BetaNews.com
Linspire Goes Five-0
By David Worthington, BetaNews March 18, 2005, 9:42 PM
After a year of development time Linspire, Inc. has released a new operating system dubbed Linspire Five-0. The most significant changes were made to the user interface; other changes include better support for laptops and hardware, Internet optimization and an updated catalogue of bundled applications. The release is available immediately as a digital download and boxed copies will be available for purchase at participating retailers.
Linspire Five-0 is a Linux-based operating system based on the Linux kernel 2.6.10 and KDE desktop environment. Since it is Linux based, Linspire is ready to run more than 2000 available programs from the open source community which are downloadable on demand through Linspire's click and run (CNR) software library.
The standard Linspire configuration preinstalls the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, a cadre of e-mail and instant messaging clients, multimedia viewers, photo and music managers as well as...
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