Linspire and Freespire Linux OSes Now Patched Against Meltdown and Spectre Flaws

Posted by hanuca on Jan 15, 2018 4:11 PM EDT
Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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After releasing an updated ISO image for Black Lab Enterprise Linux with patches against Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities, Roberto J. Dohnert also updated the Linspire and Freespire Linux OSes.

The developer released Linspire 7.0.1, Freespire 3.0.1, Linspire Cloud 7.0.1, Linspire Embedded 7.0.1, and Linspire HPC 7.0.1 new ISOs, which include the patches needed to mitigate the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerability that have been publicly disclosed earlier this month, affecting billions of devices.

Linspire 7.0 and Freespire 3.0 were announced in the first days of 2018, as Roberto J. Dohnert is the new owner of these long-forgotten GNU/Linux distributions. Formerly known as Lindows, Linspire was very popular more than a decade ago and was, available to buy from various stores around the world.

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