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Free Linspire download through September 6

It looks as though Linspire 5 is available for free download through September 6. A review of the release is available here. According to desktop linux, this is in part related to freespire, which ha…

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It looks as though Linspire 5 is available for free download through September 6. A review of the release is available here. According to desktop linux, this is in part related to freespire, which has been requested to change it's name. Currently the codename is "squiggle".



Details on the free linspire download can be found here. Well, I just tried and was informed " Coupon freespire expired on Aug 30, 2005 11:51 AM PST and is no longer valid" - so... I don't know it looks like their servers have been hit pretty hard, but they may have pulled the offer.