Linspire, Inc. 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 distributed primarily pre-installed on PCs for home, school, and business users. Linspire pioneered the CNR Technoloy, which allows desktop Linux users access to thousands of software programs, packages and libraries, each of which can be downloaded and installed with just one mouse click. Linspire, Inc. was founded by former MP3.com CEO Michael Robertson, and is headed by CEO Larry Kettler. Linspire is headquartered in San Diego, CA. The latest operating system offering from Linspire is compatible with all popular operating system, Internet and media file extensions. You can open, edit and share files including Word (.doc), Excel (.xls), PowerPoint (.ppt), Real Player (.ram, .rm), audio files (.wav, .mp3), graphics files (.psd, .jpg, .gif, .tif, .bmp, .pdf, etc.), and many more. --