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Linspire's CNR Goes Multi-Distro

Posted by kdawson on from the embrace-and-extend dept.

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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  1. Re:Repositories? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    What does cnr do that I cant do with apt-get?

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

  2. Re:Repositories? by powerlord · · Score: 2, Funny
    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 :)
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  3. Re:.Hierarchy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ....
    99. WinMe

  4. Re:Linux is a failure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

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

  5. Re:Repositories? by rrohbeck · · Score: 2, Funny
    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.
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  6. Re:Linux4Retards by Karzz1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "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 :)

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