Ubuntu & Linspire

[grumpypenguin]

On Thursday 08 February 2007 17:09, Man-Chicken wrote:
> It means we'll get more downstream patches, and linspire will help us get
> more people using Free software.  I think it's a win-win.  Linspire gets
> some packages from a damned-good distro to merge in, and we get some
> hopefully comparable patches back up from them.  Freedom is a wonderful
> thing.
Ah ,but you won't be able to lord it over your non geek friends anymore <sob>
>
> On Thursday 08 February 2007 12:43, Lokeey wrote:
> > Hey all, I just read about Ubuntu and Linspire teaming up. Based on
> > anyone expertise or experience, would someone be able to comment on this
> > and say if this is a good/bad thing???
> >
> > ================
> > Canonical Ltd., the sponsor of Ubuntu, and Linspire Inc. the developer of
> > Linspire and Freespire, on February 8 announced a
> > technology<http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2092672,00.asp#>par
> >tn ership 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.
> > Starting with Ubuntu's 7.04 release in April, Ubuntu users will gain
> > access to Linspire's newly opened CNR (Click and Run) e-commerce and
> > software delivery system. For Linspire, that will mean moving from Debian
> > to Ubuntu as the base for its Linspire and Freespire desktop operating
> > systems<http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2092672,00.asp#>
> > .
>
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