Linspire's CNR Goes Multi-Distro

S3Indiana writes with news that Linspire is opening its Click 'N Run installation software to other Linux distributions. After 5 years of development on CNR, the new site cnr.com will be a single source repository for Linux users. Distributions to be supported initially during 2007 are (alphabetically): Debian, Fedora, Freespire, Linspire, OpenSUSE, and Ubuntu; other distributions will follow. See the FAQ and the screenshots for more details.

Re:Repositories?

[Anonymous Coward]

What does cnr do that I cant do with apt-get?

If only there were some sort of "linked article" that explained that!

Re:Repositories?

[powerlord]

Not make your mom's head explode when you show her Linux? At least it sounds like their goal is to make Linux more user-friendly. Also, it means that if a commercial software developer wants to make a program for Linux, they can just dump it to CNR instead of making a .deb, a .rpm, a .tar.gz, etc, and hope Linux users show up to their website.

Exactly. This could be huge for lowering the barrier for installing programs (both on a technical level, and across flavors). A few more announcements along these lines, and we *might* just have a "year of Linux on the Desktop" yet :)

Re:.Hierarchy

[Anonymous Coward]

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99. WinMe

Re:Linux is a failure

[Anonymous Coward]

Sure looks to me like you too suck a whole lot.

Re:Repositories?

[rrohbeck]

Obligatory...

What does cnr do that I cant do with apt-get?

If only there were some sort of "linked article" that explained that!

You must be new here.

Re:Linux4Retards

[Karzz1]

"The vast majority of computer users get software by putting a disk in their CD drive and following instructions."

I think you are over estimating about 90% of the computing populace :)