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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 rovingeyes · · Score: 3, Informative

    Buy software. Look at the screenshots.

  2. Proprietary multimedia codecs by rumith · · Score: 5, Informative
    Here's what ESR has to say about it (http://catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/wo rld-domination-201.html):

    Can Linspire save us? In late July 2006, one of us (Raymond) went public on a panel at at OSCON 2006 with the argument of the previous section. Just minutes later, he was contacted by Kevin Carmony, the CEO of Linux distributor Linspire. Mr. Carmony expressed stong support for our conclusions and a direct interest in addressing the problem. Linspire, as it turns out, is in a unique position. They are the only company with the legal right to ship Linux ports of Windows Media Format codecs, including QuickTime capability. They extracted this concession as part of the settlement of their successful trademark lawsuit against Microsoft. In August 2006, as a result of having shown a draft of this paper to Kevin Carmony, we were directly involved in the planning for a Linspire product with all the characteristics we have been describing. Linspire wants to be "Streaming Penguin" in the hopeful scenario we described above. They even adopted our proposed name for the product: the Codex. As a result, Eric Raymond joined the Freespire Advisery Board. Freespire is the community development project associated with the Linspire system; its relationship with Linspire is analogous to that between the Fedora project and Red Hat. Linspire may in fact be able to solve our multimedia problem. They deserve the community's support and encouragement for trying. That alone would be a huge step forward. And according to the CNR site, they ARE going to provide them.
  3. Re:Enough CNR like things... by AlXtreme · · Score: 3, Informative

    Klik is more-or-less what you're asking for. I also suspect that it is one of the reasons why CNR is going multi-distro...

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