Founded in 2001 as Lindows (a named changed as part of a settlement deal with Microsoft, following a trademark-infringement lawsuit), Linspire has carved out a niche in the Linux desktop field but ...

The San Diego-based company is taking a different approach to Linux by focusing on mimicking Microsoft Windows. Linspire looks to make links as easy as possible and boasts that its flavor of the ...

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Linspire, the Linux desktop vendor and minor Microsoft blighter (formerly known as Lindows), released the latest version of its operating system last week with several tweaks and new features aimed ...

Linspire is giving away free copes of its Linux desktop operating system, called Linspire Five-0, until Sept. 6, the company announced on Thursday. Linspire Five-0 normally costs $49.95, but Linspire ...

San Diego-based Linspire announced yesterday that it has shipped the latest version of its desktop Linux package, Linspire Five-0. The Linspire-packaged version of the open source operating system ...

Canonical and Linspire yesterday announced a deal that will see Linspire building its Linspire and Freespire Linux distributions on Ubuntu and Ubuntu users gaining access to Linspire's click and run ...

Computers running the Linux OS are continuing to advance into the consumer retail market, with the announcement this week that Micro Center will sell desktops and laptops running Linspire Inc.’s Linux ...

A recent development that could result in an uptick in corporate Linux desktop adoption had nothing to do with the open source community, foreign or U.S. government rulings, or legal fillings by SCO ...

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Microsoft Corp., the Redmond, Wash., software giant, and Linspire Inc., the San Diego provider of Linux software for desktop computers, said they would cooperate on a broad ...