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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2005-07-27
because you miss dependency hell? :-)
Sorry couldn't let that one go... I know rpm has come far and now is probably as good as deb packages.
On topic: I don't like linspire's politics, so all I can do now is hope they won't screw ubuntu.