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wilf
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Hi All,
I just spotted an interesting article on slashdot...
I tend to use Gentoo for servers, both for my own business and my customers. I have only made one attempt to install Gentoo using the Universal install CD and I didn't like the package management interface. I started again with the minimal install CD.
However, if Gentoo would like to target a wider marketplace then this might offer a satisfactory way forward. Have a look at the bottom image - it shows how CNR will integrate with Ubuntu.
Perhaps the same approach will work for Gentoo/portage and give Gentoo a Graphical package management tool with 5 years development behind it.
Perhaps I am talking crock 
Best Regards, Paul. |
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NeddySeagoon
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wilf,
It looks like binaries only
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tageiru
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Ad supported package management. Brilliant.
Linspire should have died off at the Lindows controversy. I hope for the future of Linux that this is never implemented. |
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pjp
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If people are OK with ads, I don't see a problem. Linspire actually sounds like a decent alternative to Windows if it works as well as I've read.
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wilf
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| tageiru wrote: | | Ad supported package management. Brilliant. |
FX: Arrrgghhh! I hadn't spotted this.
I also thought that this was a genuine open source project being opened up by Linspire. It's called not reading things properly. Ho Hum.
My mistake.
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JasonRivers
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it gets better than just ad-supported, I do have Linspire five 0 ( it was free, thought i'd see what its like)
the CNR app is a bit... hmm crap....
I mean, in terms of installing apps etc its a very good program and great idea, however did you notice on the top screen shot there is "Star Office 8" for $69.99 - as i recall in Linspire, there was no Open office, so I was stick with 1.4 (I think) and you had to PAY to get the OOo 2 release.... is this what open source was meant for? - i think not.
for this reason, and also the fact that lets face it 20,000 packages, my "emerge --sync" when I run it (about once or twice a week) updates more packages than that, its not alot, really, and its way too commercialised for my liking, I will not ever use a system that has CNR on it, and i hope to god (or the developers) that it never hits Gentoo....
Jay
EDIT: I no longer use Linspire, and would never advise anyone to use it! |
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