Scarecrow Man Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 Finding, installing and updating software has been confusing for many desktop Linux users, with each distribution requiring their own installation process. With over five years of development, CNR will now normalize the process of finding, installing and updating Linux software for the most popular Linux distributions, both Debian and RPM based. Support for different Linux distributions will begin being available in the 2nd Quarter of 2007 via a new website, http://cnr.com. Distributions expected to be supported during 2007 are (alphabetically): Debian, Fedora, Freespire, Linspire, OpenSUSE, and Ubuntu, with other distributions planned to follow. CNR will remain a free service for all the distributions supported. Work on this project began a year ago, and Linspire has completely redesigned, updated, and enhanced the CNR technology to support multiple distributions, both Debian and RPM based. At http://cnr.com, users may use their web browser to search for applications by title, popularity, user rating, category, function, and so on. An open-sourced plugin for each supported distribution is then used to add the one-click installation functionality. The new multi-distribution CNR system will support different distributions, as well as different versions within these distributions.Full Storyhttp://cnr.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted January 27, 2007 Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 Maybe this will make Linux allot more user friendly which can only be good. Will give it a go in six months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason.b.c Posted January 28, 2007 Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 I've never really thought that there was anything that great about the CNR , I think it sucks really , I never could get it to work right..Everytime i wanted to install something it wound up failing... I think synaptic works just fine , And besides that , Everything you find in the CNR can be found in Synaptic... Synaptic is easy to use , Just click and install..!! How much more user friendly can it get..?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted January 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 Synaptic is easy to use , Just click and install..!! How much more user friendly can it get..??That's exactly what CNR is (Click and Run), and I found it quite easy to use. I have used Linux before, but still consider myself new to the entire Linux community. I was able to install Firefox, OpenOffice.org as well as some Linux updates with 1 click using CNR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 I have never tried it, I always use apt-get or synaptic, in my present distro.As rong says, anything that makes Linux distros more user friendly has got to be a good thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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