Roberto Dohnert has announced the release of Freespire 7.7, a new update of the project's Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the Xfce desktop. This version adds the ability to (optionally) incorporate various web applications into the system: "Today, the PC/OpenSystems LLC open-source development team releases Freespire 7.7. This update launches an entirely new direction for our distribution products, Freespire, Linspire and Xandros, by incorporating a cloud app approach. Since this is Freespire, our community-support build, we did not incorporate anyone's specific web apps into the distribution. The selection is entirely the user's choice. And for more traditional use cases, the core of Freespire has not changed at all - it's still a full-featured desktop OS; all of the applications and resources of the Ubuntu repositories are available, as always. The distribution includes: Xfce 4.16 desktop, Linux kernel 5.4, Synaptic, Google Chrome 92, DuckDuckGo as the default search engine and homepage, Ice SSB, KPatience, DreamChess, Geary mail client, KolourPaint, Parole, Rhythmbox, Caja as the default file manager." Read the complete release announcemnet for further details. Download: release-77F.iso (1,427MB, SHA256, pkglist). Link: https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=11313
The distribution includes :
XFCE Desktop 4.16, Kernel 5.4.0-80, Synaptic, Google Chrome 92, DuckDuckGo set as the default search engine and homepage, Ice SSB, Kpatience, Dreamchess , Geary Mail Client, Kolourpaint, Parole video player, Rhythmbox, Caja is now the default file manager (Thunar is still in the base install).
Below is the standard desktop and my own screen shots. I'm using the included Greybird theme. It also has a nice collection of wallpapers. I added OnlyOffice, Brasero, Chromium, Firefox, and Conky. I like this new light distro. Hope you will too.
One thing to suggest is to add the Update Manager by entering the following: sudo apt-get install update-manager
Caja and Nemo file managers (below)
You can get Freespire Linux 7.7 here: https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=11313
Or on their website here: https://www.freespire.net/
