'We have put everything into this latest commercial release to make it our most complete offering to date,' said Larry Kettler, President and CEO of Linspire, Inc., as Linspire yesterday announced the immediate availability of Linspire 6.0 - the latest commercial release of the desktop Linux operating system.

"If you are genuinely interested in finding an OS alternative, Linspire 6.0 will show you how far desktop Linux has come" continued Kettler.

"Linspire 6.0 further bridges the gap between open source and commercial software, combining the best from each into a single easy-to-use, familiar and productive operating system," he added.

Linspire 6.0 is the first desktop Linux operating system to bundle the CNR Client (beta), providing one-click access to thousands of open source and popular commercial applications such as Sun's StarOffice, Parallels Workstation, Win4Lin, CodeWeaver's Crossover Office, TransGaming's Cedega, commercial games and many more.

More controversially, version 6.0 is also the first commercial offering from Linspire to provide customers with Microsoft patent covenants.

In June of 2007, Linspire and Microsoft entered into a broad interoperability and technical collaboration agreement to facilitate interoperability between Windows and Linspire, which included intellectual property assurances. The agreement promotes customer choice and strengthens the bridge between the Microsoft® Windows® and Linux operating systems.