Custom Linux provider Xandros will release a free Linux OS called "Freespire 5" during the fourth quarter of 2008. This next version of Freespire will be based on the Debian GNU/Linux "Lenny" release rather than the Ubuntu Linux platform Freespire 4 uses.

The move spearheads a new Xandros consolidated desktop strategy following its acquisition in July of Linspire, the developer of the CNR software distribution platform. Linspire also developed the commercial Linux OS called "Linspire" and the community-supported Freespire Linux desktop OS.

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Prior to the acquisition, Xandros had distributed the Xandros Desktop Professional Linux and a free Open Circulation edition of Xandros Desktop Linux. Xandros is integrating the former Freespire Linux version developed by Linspire into the new Freespire 5 Linux OS. Xandros will not offer the previous Linspire Linux OS nor develop a new version of it.

Xandros will follow its release of the free Freespire 5 with the Xandros Desktop Professional 5.

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