Linspire has announced a partnership with Canonical through which Linspire will move from Debian to the Debian-based Ubuntu as the platform for its Linspire and Freespire operating systems.
If that sound confusing, it needn't be. The company also also provided a graphical representation of how the Linux kernel, Debian, Ubuntu, Freespire and Linspire fit together.

Source: Linspire, click on the image for the original, larger version.
Quite what it all means for the Debian community remains to be seen, and it will take some time for the ramifications to become apparent. In the meantime, the announcement details are here and an additional Q&A is here.

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Posted by Matthew Aslett on February 8, 2007 05:45 PM
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