Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Linspire Standardizes Software Installation Across Linux Distributions
Should be interesting to see how CNR deals with all the various
different versions of dependencies across multiple distros.
I'm not entirely sceptical however. I think it would be an excellent way
to distribute commercial games, for instance. Sort of like "Steam", but
for Linux. I can think of one or two other apps that would benefit from
CNR too, such as Google Earth, Sun Java, etc.
However, if you look at the CNR mock-up page, inexplicably they feature
Firefox as one of their offerings? I can't think of many distros
(certainly none of the ones supported by CNR) that don't already have
Firefox in their repos (Debian's Iceweasel is merely a re-branded
Firefox, in order to avoid Mozilla's draconian trademark policy).
Presumably by the time they launch this service, they'll have pruned the
offerings down to software not already available in the distro's repos.
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K.
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