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CNR.com Delivers Linux Users One-Click WeatherBug Software

Easy-to-use Linux Software Delivery Offers Users One-Click Access to Accurate Live Weather Information, Forecasts and Severe Weather Alerts

San Diego, CA - May 8th, 2008 - Linspire, Inc. developer of CNR.com (www.cnr.com), an easy-to-use, one-click digital software delivery service for desktop Linux and WeatherBug®, the leading provider of live, local weather information and severe weather alerts, today announced the immediate availability of WeatherBug for Freespire 2.0, Linspire 6.0, Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10 and 8.04 (32 bit) users and will soon expand to additional popular desktop Linux distributions. Available for download and installations with one-click through CNR.com (http://www.cnr.com/product/weatherbug), WeatherBug provides immediate access to severe weather alerts and the most up-to-date, precise weather information including local temperatures, wind speed, radar and forecasts from the WeatherBug Network of weather stations and cameras worldwide to help people plan their day and stay safe.

"Discovering new software applications like WeatherBug is a really nice feature at CNR.com," said Larry Kettler, President & CEO of Linspire, Inc. "Using our free service provides CNR users awareness and education on the large number of quality Linux software applications available today."

WeatherBug’s precise weather conditions are delivered to millions of consumers via the Internet and mobile devices, to more than 100 state and local government agencies including the National Weather Service, and to schools, businesses and 80 broadcast television stations throughout the country. WeatherBug currently has more than 3M active widgets, primarily on the OSX and Windows platforms.

"A key value of our WeatherBug applications is the ability to deliver severe weather alerts and live conditions to the desktop. We are very excited to now bring this capability to the desktop of Linux users," said Chris Sloop, CTO at WeatherBug. "Working with Linspire and CNR.com, we can now make our application available to a large audience of Linux users via a platform that makes it very easy to find and download our application."

For commercial Linux software publishers and ISVs, there is a free Publisher Program that enables vendors to quickly get their software products included in CNR.com and have them available for distribution. For more information please email publishers@cnr.com.

About CNR
CNR.com (http://www.cnr.com) is a free one-click software delivery service designed to standardize the process and eliminate the complexity of finding, installing and managing Linux software for the most popular desktop Linux distributions. A free service requiring no registration to use, CNR.com users get the most extensive free resource available anywhere for desktop Linux software. As part of CNR.com, a Premium CNR Service provides users a number of features and value, including discounts on all commercial Linux software applications available through CNR.com. Search from tens of thousands of Linux software programs, packages and libraries by title, popularity, similar software, category or function, and with just one click, install the software right on to your computer.

About Linspire
Linspire, Inc. (http://www.linspire.com) 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 for home, school, and business users.

About WeatherBug
WeatherBug (http://weatherbug.com and http://weatherbugprofessional.com) ensures that individuals, schools, businesses and government agencies receive the most precise live weather information, the most relevant weather reports and the earliest weather warnings to safeguard property and lives and to plan with confidence. By combining its proprietary asset—the world's largest, most dense network of live weather stations and cameras located primarily at neighborhood schools and public safety facilities—with aggregated weather data from publically available sources around the world, the WeatherBug Network delivers highly relevant and precise weather information for the most accurate, neighborhood-level weather available today. WeatherBug data is unique as it is the only live, neighborhood-level weather available, anywhere. WeatherBug is a brand of AWS Convergence Technologies Inc. (http://aws.com).

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