Linked by Andrew Davis on Mon 22nd Nov 2004 20:12 UTC
I admit that I'm a geek. I use Linux. I use Solaris. I use FreeBSD. At times, I use Windows. And without a doubt, I download and try almost every Linux distribution when they come out. Over the last few years, I've tried all of the RedHat/Fedora releases, 2 different Lindows/Linspire releases, Mandrake, Gentoo, Xandros, Suse, Ubuntu, and the list goes on.
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One of the main reasons CNR works as well as it does is because it works with a set and known OS (Linspire), with all the known menu's, layouts, dependencies, etc. CNR with an rpm-based system would be extremely difficult. Yes, conceptually this would be great (and we'd love to be able to offer that), but from a practical standpoint, it would be extremely costly and a huge technical challenge.
We have done tests, and even apt only works about 50% of the time if you start messing too much with the OS. CNR has a 97% success rate, because it knows where it's going to land.
Maybe one day we'll be up for that challenge, but for now, CNR is a Linspire only thing.
I completely agree with the author, however, about the idea of each OS having their strengths and target audience. I know most geeks hated AOL, but it was always the one they recommended to their mom because they didn't want the support problems. Fortunately for AOL, that allowed them to become the #1 ISP with around 30 million subscribers. Linspire is sort of the AOL of Linux...so easy to use, no wonder it's #1. =)
I even know several "geeks" who use Linspire too now. They dislike broken dependencies, lack of hardware detection, etc., as much as anyone.
Kevin Carmony
President, Linspire, Inc.