Linspire Continues Global Expansion of Desktop Linux
Community & Commercial Localization Effort Introduces Deutsch (German), Dutch, Espanol & Standard English (UK) Versions
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 6 /- Linspire, Inc., developer of the commercial desktop Linux operating system of the same name and primary sponsor of the IRMA Project (International Resource Management Application linspire.com/irma), today announced the immediate release and digital availability of Linspire 5 in several languages: Deutsch (German), Dutch, Espanol, and Standard English (UK). The combined translation efforts from the community-based desktop Linux localization IRMA Project, with the commercial support from Linspire translation specialists and strategic partners, continues the international expansion of new language offerings, following the announcement of Linspire 5 French last week.
"The open source community is helping lift roadblocks to desktop Linux adoption by working together to bring Linspire's ease of use to computer users all over the world in their native language," said Kevin Carmony, President and CEO of Linspire. "Linspire prides itself on our ease of use, and certainly having everything localized in a user's language is vital to usability."
Open source community volunteers, strategic partners and Linspire's engineers continue to work hard on a multi-pronged effort to translate both the operating system and key applications. Using the Web-based translating application IRMA Project, volunteers who speak English as well as one of these languages translated thousands of strings of code that make up the complete Linspire operating system. Those translated strings were then checked, edited and filtered to create these versions of Linspire 5.
"We will continue to deliver languages for our customers around the globe as they switch to desktop Linux," continued Carmony. "Over the next several months, you will see several additional languages added as we continue with more localized offerings for both Linspire and Freespire."
For a list of Linspire 5 features and benefits, please visit linspire.com/features. The digital versions of Linspire in all the languages mentioned above are available immediately on-line for download on the Linspire.com website at linspire.com/languages. The cost for Linspire 5 is $49.95US (38EUR), however for a limited introductory time until January 1st, 2007, the cost for Linspire 5 in any of these languages is $26.25US (20EUR) with the following coupon code: "LinspireLanguages" In addition, system builders interested in the version of Linspire in one of these languages can sign up for free to the Linspire Builder Partner Program at linspire.com/partners and gain access to Linspire in several languages.
About Linspire, Inc.
Linspire, Inc. (www.linspire.com) was founded in 2001 to bring choice into the operating system market. The company's flagship product, the Linspire operating system, is an affordable, easy-to-use Linux-based operating system for home, school, and business users. Linspire pioneered CNR ("Click and Run") Technology, which allows Linspire users access to thousands of software programs, each of which can be downloaded and installed with just one mouse click. The thousands of software titles available in the CNR Warehouse (linspire.com/cnr) include full office and productivity suites, games, multimedia players, photo management software, accounting tools, and more.
About IRMA
IRMA (Internationalization Resource Management Application) is a website dedicated to the translation efforts for the Linspire operating system and various Open Source projects. People from across the world can use IRMA's simple interface to perform translations without the cumbersome technical challenges that are typically associated with translation efforts.
About Freespire
Freespire (Freespire.org) is a community-driven, Linux-based operating system that combines the best that free, open source software has to offer (community driven, freely distributed, open source code, etc.), but also provides users the choice of including proprietary codecs, drivers and applications as they see fit. With Freespire, the choice is yours as to what software is installed on your computer, with no limitations or restrictions placed on that choice. How you choose to maximize the performance of your computer is entirely up to you.
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Web site: http://linspire.com/features
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Web site: http://freespire.org/
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