Sunday, January 14, 2018

Linspire 7.0.1 and Freespire 3.0.1 Released - Meltdown and Spectre fix

This morning we have released Linspire 7.0.1 and Freespire 3.0.1 .  With this release we have addressed the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities in Intel Processors.  We have included no new features.  We have applied the fixes to:

Linspire 7.0.1
Linspire Cloud 7.0.1
Linspire Embedded 7.0.1
Linspire HPC 7.0.1

To apply the fix simply run your system updater and the fix will be applied.  If you wish to download a new ISO of Freespire you can download it here:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/blacklab/freespire/freespire-3-x64.iso
http://distro.ibiblio.org/blacklab/freespire/freespire-3-x64.iso.md5
http://distro.ibiblio.org/blacklab/freespire/freespire-3-x64.iso.sha256

Linspire customers will be provided with a download ISO of Linspire 7.0.1 upon request.

Thank you

Changes to delivery

 The number of scams against Linspire have grown to be a problem.  People have been purchasing the digital downloads getting the digital dow...