Freespire是一份由社区建设推动的、基于Linux的操作系统，它结合了免费与开源软件的优点（社区推动、免费发布、源码开放等），并在用户认为 适当时为他们提供将私有编码解码器、驱动程序和应用软件包括进来的选择。Freespire由Linspire赞助开发，后者是基于Debian GNU/Linux的面向桌面的商用发行。
Freespire 2.0 has been released: "Freespire 2.0 is immediately available; the latest version of the free desktop Linux operating system. Building on the best of open source software using Ubuntu as its baseline, Freespire 2.0 adds legally licensed proprietary drivers, codecs, and applications in its core distribution, to provide a better user experience. Freespire is able to provide improved out-of-the-box hardware, file type, and multimedia support, such as MP3, Windows Media, Real Networks, Java, Flash, ATI, NVIDIA, WiFi, and many more. Freespire is also the first desktop Linux operating system that will include a CNR plugin for the soon-to-be-released new CNR Service, providing free one-click access to thousands of open source applications." Read the full release announcement for more information. Download: 2.0.0_full-feisty....iso (688MB, MD5); also available via BitTorrent.
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