Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Feb 2007 23:04 UTC, submitted by Dolores Parker
Yesterday, Linspire and Canonical issued a joint announcement that Linspire would begin to base its distributions on Ubuntu rather than Debian, and that Ubuntu users would be able to use CNR to install proprietary applications and drivers, starting with the Fiesty Fawn release. Linspire is just the latest distro to switch from Debian to Ubuntu, though it may be the highest-profile distribution to do so. Are other distros in talks with Canonical? Steve George, Canonical's director of support and services, says that Canonical is in talks with other vendors, and says, "I think you'll see some announcements next week about other people using us as a platform."
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2006-10-11
BSDrama: There's great potential in this. This could be the tipping point for Linux. Being honest, as a fairly new *NIX user I can tell you guys that most people don't want to be bothered with the console or, in the case of BSD, with ports.
You, certainly, know that Linspire was already very casual-user friendly before this announcement. AFAIK, they were the first to include a searchable help manual that showed you movies to explain how to do stuff. You certainly don't need to use a terminal if you don't want to.
And although Synaptic is a fairly good option, nothing beats double clicking on an icon to install software.
Unless, of course, you want to install a whole load of apps, do this without user-interaction, remotely or on several machines at the same time. But agreed, for the casual home desktop user this probably is not too bad.
Standardization IS the way to go. This could very well be a historical announcement. I'm stoked.
I fear, you lost me here. How is moving from being based on Debian to being based on Ubuntu -- which itself is based on Debian -- a step up on the standardization ladder?