An ISO image of the Freespire 2.0 CD is included on the DVD that comes with this book. You can
also follow the instructions in Appendix A to copy and burn the Freespire ISO to a CD-ROM for use
as a live CD or in the installation process described in this chapter. The Web page http://wiki
.freespire.org/index.php/Download_Freespire describes alternative ways of acquiring
copies.
Linspire is a commercial product and is not included on the media that comes with this book You
can purchase Linspire directly from www.linspire.com, or you can download its live CD from
http://media.linspire.com/cnr_linspirelive/. You will need to run a bittorrent client
to download the CD. (In Fedora, you can install bittorrent as root user by typing yum install
bittorrent-gui.)
The installation procedure for Linspire and Freespire is mostly the same and is described later in
this chapter.
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Choosing and Installing a Linux Distribution Part III
Which Version Is Right for You?
Both Linspire and Freespire were built on the solid base of Debian/Ubuntu Linux, the KDE desktop,
and the OpenOffice.org office suite. With recent releases, the distributions have moved to
embracing Ubuntu 7.04 (itself a Debian derivative) as their foundation, or base. Unlike many other
Linux distributions, both come with a set of licensed commercial codecs for multimedia formats
such as MP3, drivers, and other proprietary software.
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