There's a new distribution in the Linux operating systems arena called Linspire. It is derived from the words Linux and Inspire. They used to call it Lindows but Microsoft were far from happy with this and set about taking legal action. As a result they decided to change the name to Linspire. Lindows stems from the words Linux and windows, which is kind of the idea of this distribution.

The man behind this distribution is the same man behind the mp3.com website, Michael Robertson. His vision is simple, to replace Windows as dominant desktop operating system, and it started off with him taking a simple Linux distribution and using emulators to run Windows software.