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New CNR.com is a Work in Progress

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“Last year, Linspire announced that it was opening its software
distribution service, CNR (short for Click ‘n’ Run), to users of
the Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu distributions. A month
ago, it announced a beta version of CNR that includes support for
Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 (the two most recent versions), with versions
for the other systems on the way. Alas, after trying it on my
Ubuntu system, I think it needs work.

“On my system, which is basically a stock Ubuntu install,
installing the CNR Client (available through a Linspire repository
or through a provided .deb package) also installed 13 additional
dependency packages…”

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