Freespire 1.0 -- Free Desktop Operating System

Freespire 1.0 has launched early, and I'm downloading it via BitTorrent to give it a whirl. What's Freespire? It's a free Linux-based Operating System. I've played around with a few different flavours of Linux, but never really got into it. I think having a serious alternative to Windows for regular computer users is a great idea, and maybe Freespire is it. That's what they're hoping for anyway.

My plans for Freespire do NOT involve replacing Windows on this, our main computer. But I'm happy to dust off one of the computers out in my garage and give it a run. I've found that other versions of Linux have worked much better than Windows on older PCs, so I'll be happy to see if the same is true for Freespire.

I'll let you know how it works out.