Software repository question

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Wed, 25 May 2011 14:19:08 -0500
Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:

> On 05/25/2011 01:57 PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 May 2011 13:47:42 -0500
> > Billie Walsh<bilwalsh at swbell.net>  wrote:
> >
> >> A few years back I ran across an "app store" that worked kind of
> >> like that. You chose the program you wanted and what OS you had and
> >> downloaded it. I don't remember where it it was, but I seem to
> >> remember that it was associated with Lindows or something.
> >> Something about it being run by the same group for whatever it was.
> >
> > CNR?  Click-n-Run was a Linspire service similar to what you are
> > talking about:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNR_%28software%29
> >
> > Cybe R. Wizard
> 
> That's it. I was close. It was "Lin" something.
> 
I remembered it because my distro at that time, Libranet Linux, was in
the process of making a deal  for free use of CNR for its users when
Libranet Linux fell apart because the main developer died leaving only a
son and one other, as I recall.

Cybe R. Wizard
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