"Libranet 2.8 is now available by download or, for the broadband challenged like me, on CDs ordered directly from Libra Computer Systems, Ltd., in Vancouver, BC, Canada. As the Linux Journal site previously posted a detailed review of Libranet 2.7, this article concerns the changes and improvements in Libranet 2.8 that would interest the desktop user and how they got there.
"Libranet is a commercial Debian distribution. If you hold the belief that Debian Linux is genuine only if it doesn't cost anything, then read no further. Commercial Debian distributions do, indeed, exist. Some, such as Storm, Progeny and Corel Linux, have come and gone, whether for good reasons or bad, but Libranet and Xandros (as well as the Xandros derivative Lindows) are still around. How long they exist depends, of course, on whether Linux users feel such distributions are worth paying for.
"I think Libranet is worth paying for. My first Debian experience was with Corel Linux. My initial exuberance was quickly smothered by the absence of support from Corel, followed by Corel's corporate decision to abandon Linux and its customers who paid for their retail Linux products..."
