Original: On August 8 , 2008 , Andreas Typaldos , CEO of Xandros , announced that Linspire would be discontinued in favor of Xandros ; Freespire would change its base code from Ubuntu to Debian ; and the Linspire brand would cease to exist .
Simplified: This follows the model of community-oriented releases by Red Hat and Novell in the form of Fedora and openSUSE .