Linspire's CNR Goes Multi-Distro 171
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.
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Besides, if I read the article I would have no chance of attaining that most vaunted
Unfortunately I did fail at that, oh well.
Proprietary multimedia codecs (Score:5, Informative)
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Does it solve any of the hard problems well, like conflicting dependencies on libraries, circular dependencies (that is, several packages must be upgraded together or not at all like a transaction), packages from other sources?
Yes, CNR checks for dependencies. If one is missing CNR will install it, and though I don't know how they do it CNR also checks for conflicts in dependencies.
Besides, they seem to easily ignore that most apps are installed with "apt-get install [name]" or similar one-click in a graphical package manager.
They even have an app that converts apt-get, Debwrap.
I understand that they're out to make money but they're making a mountain out of a molehill.
I think you're wrong. Linspire's purpose is to bring Linux to the masses, and CNR makes it a lot easier for new users of Linux to install software, basically you go through the warehouse looking for software you want to install and once you've made your selection you click one botton to install your choices. There's no worrying about dependencies, which hardly anyone knows about to begin with, and it's just another click to uninstall software. That's what the mass market wants.
Basicly what you're paying for is the hold-my-hand frontend and the privilidge of paying for commercial apps.
You don't have to pay to use CNR. The basic level is free and it allows you to install many FOSS packages. Now there is the paid service CNR Gold which offers discounts on commercial software like Crossover Linux, Win4Lin, and Cedega.
Their other promise requires debian to give up apt-get, red hat to give rpms and so on - when hell drops below absolute zero.
CNR has a utility that converts apt-get to the CNR install type, Debwrap [linspire.com]. They also have several packages for rpms [linspire.com].
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