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The release of the free CNR client was planned to coincide with the release of Freespire 2.0 and Linspire 6.0. [22] On January 23, 2007, Linspire announced that it intended to provide CNR for other Linux distributions, both APT- and RPM-based, including Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu. This support was expected to appear in mid-2007.
Linspire announced plans on April 24, 2006, to release CNR under a free software/open source license. It could then be used by other Linux distributions. In early 2007, Linspire announced that they were going expand their CNR service to other distributions than their own, namely Debian, Ubuntu, with future extensions for RPM.
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 .
In August 2005, a distribution Live CD based on Linspire's source pools named Freespire hit the web by accident. [6] This distribution was created by Andrew Betts and was not produced or released by Linspire Inc. Freespire was confused by some users to be an actual product from Linspire, and at the request of Linspire the distribution adopted a development codename Squiggle and began looking ...
Linspire was based on Debian (and later Ubuntu) with a KDE interface. Linspire was most distinguished by CNR, an early app store. In 2008, Robertson attempted to sue Linspire's bank, Comerica, in an attempt to get Comerica to refund severance payments which had been made to laid-off Linspire employees. Robertson alleged the severance payments ...
In July 2007, Xandros bought Scalix, a Linux-based email and collaboration product, based on HP OpenMail. [6] [7] In July 2008, Xandros acquired Linspire. In 2013, Xandros, Inc. changed its name to Bridgeways, Inc., and soon after, the Xandros website was taken offline.
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In June 2007, Xandros announced a similar deal. [36] [37] [38] On June 13, 2007, a deal was reached between Microsoft and Linspire. [39] In return, Linspire would change its default search engine from Google to Live search. [40] Ubuntu founder and director Mark Shuttleworth has said that Ubuntu will not be making any such deal, [41] as have Red ...