Thursday, July 26, 2018

Freespire 4.0 Beta 1.1 Released

Today we are pleased to announce the release of our newest test build of Freespire 4.0 Beta which is our upcoming release of our free version of  Linspire 8.0.  Freespire 4.0 Beta 1.1 is based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and the beta 1.1 release corrects many issues our users had with Beta 1. Please keep in mind that this beta is a pre-release and NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PRODUCTION USE.  This release is still in development meaning more changes will be coming    Freespire 4.0 Beta 1.1 includes the following updated software packages:

XFCE 4.12.2
kernel 4.15.0-29
Chromium Browser 67
Ice SSB
Geary 
Video Player
Audacious
RedShift
Abiword
Gnumeric
Cockpit
Samba 
Nitroshare
 Synergy
 Software Center with SNAP and Flatpak support

You can download Beta 1.1 from our download location

http://distro.ibiblio.org/blacklab/pre/albacore4-b1-1.iso
http://distro.ibiblio.org/blacklab/pre/albacore4-b1-1.iso.md5
http://distro.ibiblio.org/blacklab/pre/albacore4-b1-1.iso.sha256