A new version of Freespire has been released.

Freespire 8.2 Released

Today, the Freespire development team is pleased to announce the release of Freespire 8.2, the latest incremental release for our FOSS product line. 

With a broad application lineup ready for our users, Freespire 8.2 is the logical continuation of a great desktop product. Aside from updates, we have listened to our users and made several changes. Most noticeably, we have switched from the GNOME desktop environment to the latest LTS of Plasma KDE, 5.18.8. Additionally, many of our users have requested them, so we have included the full range of multimedia codecs for our users to consume / create content in whatever format they like. 

Another request was to switch from Google Chrome; we have honored that, switching Freespire’s default browser to Falkon, widely available, fully open source. 

For security reasons we have disabled the installation of SNAP and SNAP packages.  If you try to install a SNAP package it will fail.

Freespire 8.2 comes with no support options available except for its community. Forums are available to let us know of any problems that may arise as well as interact with members of the Freespire community

Freespire Forums 

If you do need a fully supported operating system environment you can get Linspire  here. 

The distribution includes : 

KDE Plasma 5.18.8 - fast and lean Linux desktop, fully functional and performance enhanced; peerless in terms of speed and user friendliness. 

Kernel 5.13.0 LTS - Long Term Support kernel designed to stand the test of time. 

Flatpak - Alternative package manager to SNAP, the current Ubuntu standard. 

Falkon - Open Source Web browser based on QTWebKit 

Kpat - Solitaire game 

Calligra Office - Office suite. Part of the KDE Application suite 

DragonPlayer - Multimedia player 

Juk - Music Player 

Balena Etcher - Utility for writing ISO’s to a USB stick 

This release also contains many functionality / security updates. 

You can download Freespire 8.2 below.

https://distro.ibiblio.org/blacklab/freespire/82/Freespire-82-desktop-amd64.iso

https://distro.ibiblio.org/blacklab/freespire/82/Freespire-82-desktop-amd64.md5

https://distro.ibiblio.org/blacklab/freespire/82/Freespire-82-desktop-amd64.sha256

If you have data caps or metered internet connections you may want to consider purchasing a physical copy.  It gives you physical media and helps us out.

Freespire 8.2 Released