
Freespire, for those not in the know, is the open source equivalent of Linspire and Xandros, but with strictly libre / open source components. While incremental, it does incorporate some important OS fixes to version 7.0 which we will detail. If you wish to donate to the freespire project you can do that here as well You can download the GNOME release from here
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To install Freespire GNOME is very simple click on the "Show Applications" button on the taskbar and when the drawers open click on the Install icon and setup is very simple and straightforward.
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and focuses on web centric applications though traditional desktop applications are available through the software center.Īs with our traditional Freespire releases aside from Google Chrome there are no proprietary codecs or drivers included although they are available through the software center. Aside from the desktop and a more recent kernel build the Freespire GNOME release is identical to the XFCE build.


Zswap is also enabled to help with performance with Chromebooks and other hardware systems that have less that 4 gb of physical memory. The way we deliver cloud applications has also changed. Even though we do include LibreOffice as the default office suite it’s still a full featured desktop OS and an excellent platform to deploy any and all of your cloud applications. Freespire core again has not changed at all.

But we have also listened to users who said they wanted a local Office suite so that they could continue their work uninterrupted in case of travel or internet outage and we have included the full LibreOffice suite.
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This update ships with most of the requested Google services.

Today, the PC/OpenSystems LLC FOSS development team is pleased to release Freespire 8.0.1, This update delivers needed security fixes and adds some functionality that some users have requested.
