On Tuesday 23 January 2007 08:50, Chakkaradeep C C wrote: > FYI, :D > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Kevin Carmony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Jan 23, 2007 1:58 PM > Subject: [Freespire-Users] News you'll likely be interested in about CNR > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I think most of you on these mailing lists will be interested in this > significant news. Here are some links... > > Press > Release<http://www.linspire.com/lindows_news_pressreleases_archives.php?id= >212> >
I somehow doubt the Linux community will be as excited as Kevin seems to be. Getting CnR to work with other distros may be a very impressive move, but Linspire are not held in high regard by some of those distros - e.g the Debian users or Ubuntu people.Not that the distro is bad, but the commercial overtones offend many in the community. To be honest, Debian based distros probably have a lot more packages - freely available - than the CnR warehouse does. The only "possible" advantage is that CnR does have a number of "commercial" apps - such as Cross Over stuff and Cedega - but those are of course downloadable from the relevant websites anyway. As someone who uses Debian and Kubuntu on systems regularly, I honestly believe Linspire will not find those users getting excited by the chance to use CnR - I certainly will not be trying it out as I can do everything I desire on my system as it stands, with Debian, Kubuntu or Yoper. Good luck to them - it is a different approach and I wish them well with it, but I feel the move will result in little or no great uptake and will probably upset the FSF zealots as well as some of the more moderate open source people. Just my own view of course and, as mentioned, I wish them success with it. Mark _______________________________________________ yoper-dev mailing list [email protected] https://morpheus.pingos.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev
