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Linspire (formerly Lindows) is a commercial operating system based on Debian and Ubuntu and currently owned by PC/OpenSystems LLC. It had been owned by Linspire.Inc. from 2001 to 2008, and then by Xandros from 2008 to 2017.
Digital Cornerstone (formerly known as Lindows, Inc. (2001–2004) and Linspire, Inc. (2004–2008)) was a Linux and open source software company based in San Diego, California. It primarily targeted desktop computers with its flagship Linux distribution , Linspire .
Microsoft v. Lindows.com, Inc. was a court case brought by Microsoft against Lindows, Inc in December 2001, claiming that the name "Lindows" was a violation of its trademark "Windows." After two and a half years of court battles, Microsoft paid US$20 million for the Lindows trademark, and Lindows Inc. became Linspire Inc.
Freespire is a community-driven Linux distribution currently owned by PC/Open Systems LLC. It is derived from Linspire and is composed mostly of free, open source software, while providing users the choice of including proprietary software including multimedia codecs, device drivers and application software.
In 2010 PC/OS moved to a more unified look to its parent distribution and a GNOME version was released on March 3, 2010. Pinguy – An Ubuntu-based distribution designed to look and feel simple. Pinguy is designed with the intent of integrating new users to Linux.
PCLinuxOS 2012.02 version was released on February 22, 2012. [12] [13] [14] Later another maintenance release was made on August 22, 2012. Major changes compared to the 2011 release are: Kernel has been updated to version 3.2; KDE version 4.8.2; nVIDIA and ATi fglrx driver support; KDE Settings set to dark by default
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Linux distributions that have highly modified kernels — for example, real-time computing kernels — should be listed separately. There are also a wide variety of minor BSD operating systems, many of which can be found at comparison of BSD operating systems .