Comments on: Linspire: It Just Keeps Getting Better http://www.bloggernews.net/112240 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:29:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: lefty.crupps http://www.bloggernews.net/112240#comment-148158 lefty.crupps Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:33:38 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/112240#comment-148158 CNR is a new solution from Linspire, but it is by no means the only *easy* way to install software in Linux distributions. Ubuntu uses Synaptic, for example, as a single location to browse and install software. A person types in what they want (burn cd, for example), a list of available software appears, the user clicks the application which they want, clicks "Install" button... and that software is installed. CNR isn't a lot different or easier than this. It is nice to have another way to install software, but it is kind of retreading the same path well work out by other tools. The ./configure, make, make install process is always available, but nearly all Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, openSuse, and Mandriva, and many many others, each have their own way to install software which is much easier than the "zig and zag therough the file system" which you mentioned. Pretty much all Linux distros try to make everything as easy as possible; of course, it differs on how well they do this or what they mean by "easy" :) CNR is a new solution from Linspire, but it is by no means the only *easy* way to install software in Linux distributions.

Ubuntu uses Synaptic, for example, as a single location to browse and install software. A person types in what they want (burn cd, for example), a list of available software appears, the user clicks the application which they want, clicks “Install” button… and that software is installed.

CNR isn’t a lot different or easier than this. It is nice to have another way to install software, but it is kind of retreading the same path well work out by other tools.

The ./configure, make, make install process is always available, but nearly all Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, openSuse, and Mandriva, and many many others, each have their own way to install software which is much easier than the “zig and zag therough the file system” which you mentioned.

Pretty much all Linux distros try to make everything as easy as possible; of course, it differs on how well they do this or what they mean by “easy” :)

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