Linspire - The easiest Desktop Linux

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Tax Season With Linspire

Tax season is upon us folks and with Linspire, you can now get your taxes completed effectively and efficiently. This year like with the last 5 years we have worked with Intuit and H&R Block to make sure their customers can prepare their tax returns online with Linspire. Both applications have been tested with the Linspire 9.5 and Linspire 10 so you can rest assured that all your preparation tasks can be completed.

Our Lead System designer and developer Roberto Dohnert had this to say, " With the complexity of these apps growing more amazing over the years; testing has become just as complex. We are very proud to work with these companies to make sure desktop Linux works."

If you are still running Windows 7/8/10 on your PC and would like to upgrade you can purchase Linspire here.

If your order the box set over the Digital Download in order notes type "TaxPrep" to ensure 48-hour shipping

Monday, February 8, 2021

Linspire 10 Released

This weekend, our development team is pleased to announce the release of Linspire 10.0, a major version update brings its codebase to the latest Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Once again, PC/OS engineers have worked diligently to develop the best, most meticulously designed and engineered FOSS desktop on the market today, intuitive, efficient, ready for your workflow. There have been many changes incorporating features and functionality that elevate Linspire to the forefront of consumer operating systems / mainstream Linux distributions.

Linspire 10.0 will feature GNOME as its primary desktop; an XFCE spin will be released at a later date.

Features included in Linspire 10.0 :

Customized GNOME 3.36 Desktop

Kernel 5.8.0-41

Google Chrome 88

Ice SSB

Thunderbird 68.12

Kpatience

DreamChess

VLC

Rhytmbox

KolourPaint

LibreOffice

Boot Repair

Full UEFI support

Microsoft Powershell 7.1.1

Synaptic Package Manager

Flatpak

Software Market

Full Multimedia Codec support DVD and Blu-Ray playback

SNAP is not included by default, but can be installed from Synaptic. These are only some of the changes. Questions regarding any other changes can be directed to support AT pc-opensystems DOT com.

Linspire 10.0 can be purchased as a digital download

or if you have bandwidth limits, you can purchase a physical copy.

Monday, December 21, 2020

Linspire 10 Public Beta 1 Release

Today the PC/OpenSystems Development team is pleased to announce the Public beta for release 10, the next chapter in the Linspire story. Along with updated branding and design we have made significant advancements that once again proves - if there was ever any doubt - Linspire is the number one Linux distribution for new, intermediate and power users. Release 10 utilizes the latest LTS from Canonical (20.04) as well as our own improvements to the kernel and application base. Since this is a public beta we do not recommend that it be employed in any type of production environments; for those kind of workloads, our tested and stable release Linspire 9.5.1 is ready and able. Please feel free to submit any and all feedback to : support@pc-opensystems.com

New features found in Linspire 10:

Kernel 5.4.0-58

Native UEFI Booting

XFCE 4.14

Dark Mode now the default

Bash 5

Google Chrome 87

Thunderbird + Lightning and Exchange support 68.12

App Cafe Software Center

.NET Core 5

Powershell 7.1.0

Timeshift system backup and restore

Gdebi package installer

Synaptic

Onlyoffice 6.1.0

ice SSB 6.0.4

Thunar folder sharing

Samba 4

GUFW

Some features have not yet been enabled

DVD and Blu-Ray playback

Some multimedia codecs are missing

5.8 kernel (Public Beta 2)

You can download the Public Beta from here:

LindowsOS Lifetime Insider Program

Today we are announcing that effective immediately we will be honoring legitimate LindowsOS Lifetime Memberships from Linspire Inc. Because we have limited information on those purchases there are some caveats to that.

1. We have already contacted Lifetime members whose information has been preserved and whose e-mails and contact numbers we have on file.

2. To restart your LindowsOS lifetime membership if we dont have your information. You will have to present a legitimate receipt and we will honor it.

3. If you dont have a receipt and we cannot verify your information you will have to enroll in our new Linspire Lifetime Membership program for $150.99 which entitles you to self support downloads of Linspire.

Contact sales@pc-opensystems.com for more information

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

SolarWinds Orion Threat

There have been multiple reports from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) about the fact that malicious threats and foreign actors have been exploiting vulnerabilities in SolarWinds Orion products, primarily by leveraging the Sunburst malware. SolarWinds Orion is a monitoring solution.

PC/OpenSystems, being a Linux and Enterprise Linux solution distributor; does not now, nor have we ever used any SolarWinds products as we do not use any Microsoft Windows platforms in any of its incarnations in any kind of managerial capacity. Windows 10 in our infrastructure is used in isolated Virtual Machine environments for testing purposes only. As a result, our customers’ information is not vulnerable to these exploits.

We advise our enterprise customers who may be using the SolarWinds Orion platform to review and implement available firewall updates and rules to keep your systems secure. PC/OpenSystems LLC will continue to assist in assessing the overall security of your Information Technology infrastructure.

Monday, November 30, 2020

Linspire 9.5 released

Today the PC/Opensystems Enterprise development team is pleased to announce the final release of the Linspire 9.0 series, version 9.5. This is a comprehensive release update that will conclude the 9.0 series for the long term. V 9.5 utilizes the XFCE desktop setup to offer a more stable, traditional, intuitive desktop experience to users whose systems may be unable to run Windows 10 effectively / efficiently. For current Linspire users this release offers full security, kernel and graphics drivers updates.

While an incremental release, v 9.5 is an important, full-featured release; Linspire customers can rest assured that their investment will be protected far into the future. Linspire is the ultimate desktop Linux solution. Whether it is the 100% compatible Microsoft Office alternative, the high grade security and safer computing solution, or the perfect platform for Linux gaming. Linspire is Linux computing for the masses.

Features included are :

Full Xfce GUI System – version 4.14 LTS
Kernel 5.4.0-54
Rhythmbox
VLC
OnlyOffice 6.0.2
Kpatience
Kolourpaint
Firefox ESR 78.5
Software Center for easy application installation
Full multimedia playback through licenced codecs
Remote Administration capability
Samba
.NET Core 5.0
Microsoft Powershell
Wine and Proton support

Minimum System requirements:

1ghz or faster 64 bit CPU
2 gb of RAM
10 gb Unallocated Disk Space
800x600 or higher display resolution
keyboard, mouse or touch input

Buyers of Linspire 9.5 entitles the buyer to 12 months of free upgrades, e-mail and phone support. The download edition or boxed sets can be purchased here

Sunday, November 1, 2020

Lower Price, Same Linspire

Hey everyone,

Today we are announcing a reduction in the price of physical media for Linspire. As of today, November 1st 2020 we are reducing the cost of Linspire physical media to $39.99 USD for 1 license and we have added the most common license needs.

Why are we doing this? Linspire is a home user operating system and we want to make sure that our users get the most bang for their buck.

Will we be getting rid of the download edition? No, the download edition will continue to be $29.99 USD and available

Are you doing this because of lack of sales? No, we were extremely happy with sales of the $79.99 boxed set. We are doing this to remain competitive in the market place. We are extremely pleased with our standing in the home, education and enterprise markets.

Will my current agreement change? No, you will still get 12 months of free upgrades from the date of purchase.

You can purchase Linspire 9.0 currently from the Webstore or below

Contact Us

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Legal

Use of non-free software

The goal of Linspire is to provide a complete operating environment that users can run on any system at any time. We are a consumer distribution and realize that convenience and support of all different devices and codecs are necessary to our customers and users. So with that we do provide software that is not governed by a free and open source license in our repositories and as part of the main distribution. This includes but is not limited to Binary only drivers in our kernel and multimedia playback such as MP3, WMA, Real, Quicktime and the Flash Plugin. So what does this mean exactly? It means that software and hardware vendors do provide us with precompiled object code or blobs and do not make their source code available. While this does not introduce any kind of legal or system stability risk to our customers as we are licensed to carry this object code. Those who request to live life by adhering to the Free Software Foundations policies will want to instead use or FOSS and Free-as-in-beer operating systems that DO NOT include proprietary software and code

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