Ubuntu Daily » Other Distributions http://www.ubuntudaily.com Your Daily Dose Of Ubuntu Linux Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:10:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Ubuntu and Linspire announce partnership http://www.ubuntudaily.com/2007/02/08/ubuntu-and-linspire-announce-partnership/ http://www.ubuntudaily.com/2007/02/08/ubuntu-and-linspire-announce-partnership/#comments Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:42:00 +0000 Tim http://ubuntudaily.com/?p=7 Canonical (the company behing Ubuntu) and Linspire announced a formal partnership today.

The press release confirms that Ubuntu will be the first distribution to be supported by the previously announced CNR service. This service will provide an easy and convenient way to install software, including proprietary products like support for DVD playback.

Right now there is no information about what the CNR repository will offer, neither is known which piece of software will be available for free and for which Linspire will charge a fee, but in my opinion it is a step forward that there will be an option for users who want certain features and are willing to pay.

The CNR service will be optionally available for Feisty users (to be released in April) and might be available in the following Ubuntu release by default.

Additionally the announcement states that future versions of Linspire will be based on Kubuntu, the version of Ubuntu with KDE as desktop environment.

Read more in Linspire’s FAQ and the press release.

]]> http://www.ubuntudaily.com/2007/02/08/ubuntu-and-linspire-announce-partnership/feed/ 0 Linspire’s Click and Run soon to be available on Ubuntu http://www.ubuntudaily.com/2007/02/06/linspires-click-and-run-soon-to-be-available-on-ubuntu/ http://www.ubuntudaily.com/2007/02/06/linspires-click-and-run-soon-to-be-available-on-ubuntu/#comments Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:05:00 +0000 Tim http://ubuntudaily.com/?p=3 Linspire’s user-friendly way of installing software is called CNR (Click and Run). Basically it’s a categorised directory of software with a summary of a software title and a rating system for the users.

Linspire itself puts it as following:

CNR.com will be a free on-line digital software warehouse and one-click delivery service designed to solve the complexity of finding, installing and managing software applications on your Linux desktop computer.

It has recently been announced that Linspire plans to make the CNR service available on all major Linux distributions, which of course includes Ubuntu.

Read more on Cnr.com

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