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Linspire, Canonical, Freespire, Ubuntu join forces

desktoplinux.com — Canonical Ltd., the sponsor of Ubuntu, and Linspire Inc. the developer of Linspire and Freespire, on February 8 announced a technology partnership to integrate with each other's Linux distributions. Linspire/Freespire will be based on Ubuntu, rather than Debian, and Ubuntu will integrate with Linspire's CNR package installer/updater.

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  • davelg526, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The one click new program install could go far to make adding new programs easier for people moving from Windows. Myself I am happy with the current method(s) but I can see that simpler methods can be an advantage.



  • SlackerTD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why would it? CNR will be another choice for those who want it. If you don't want it, use whatever is in Ubuntu now. :)
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I hope this doesn't turn out to be a really bad thing for Linux in general and Ubuntu in particular...

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