Linspire has started another attempt at selling computers pre-installed with their operating system - this time by teaming up with Mirus - called the Koobox. Ars looks at the situation: "At this point it is hard to assess the potential of the Koobox systems. If it succeeds, the product could help legitimize desktop Linux and bring it further into the mainstream. Regardless of how many get sold, the availability of yet another budget Linux PC illuminates the growing popularity of the Linux platform, and contributes to the perception that Linux is applicable to desktop computing."
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You are missing the point of CNR (click and run) completely.
Not every new Linux user cares about the technical end of things when it comes to installing software on various Linux distributions. This is the target market of Linspire Five-O, and Linspire accomplishes this quite well IMO. CNR makes life simple for people that have work to do today, not postpone it for hours, days, or weeks. Remember the old acronym? KISS. 
The beauty of the Linux world is that there are many other distributions for you to try and use. Use whatever you want, but stop saying that no one wants CNR. You do not speak for me. I do want CNR and so do many other people. I switched from Mac OS X and Windows XP because I am sick and tired of shelling out my hard earned money for nothing. Also, I tried SuSE 9.3, 10 and Kubuntu - I don't like either of them - my choice. God bless America! 
BTW, you can use Synaptic, etc. on Linspire too. You don't ever have to use the CNR Service if you really don't want to. You have the freedom, man! LOL
Regarding Windows 98... You still use that unstable and ugly OS? Sheesh! Talk about circa 1990-whatever (in a California valley girl voice). Get into the 21st century, my friend! You really don't think apps don't break in the Windows or Macintosh worlds? You have a lot to learn about OS upgrades. Go look at how many apps broke when Apple released Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Too many to count! A lot of my apps broke from 10.3 (Panther), and that was the final straw for me.
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"So in summary... Google has pulled the plug on support on a protocol they've helped popularize, after years of promising interoperability, for reasons that are dubious at best, and in a way that leaves people who don't jump to the new Hangouts app unable to talk to their contacts without any feedback that their IMs aren't getting through... And they've done that with no warning to anyone. I imagine there's a bunch of people out there wondering where some of their buddies have gone, or why their messages aren't getting responses, because this isn't documented anywhere." Google really messed this up. Such a dick move.
The Tizen Greek Community has some screenshots of a very recent build of Tizen running on a Samsung GT-i8800. It looks wholly unremarkable.Joint statement to The Next Web from Microsoft and Google: "Microsoft and YouTube are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows Phone app to enable compliance with YouTube's API terms of service, including enabling ads, in the coming weeks. Microsoft will replace the existing YouTube app in Windows Phone Store with the previous version during this time." Good to know these children stopped acting like little pricks. Can we have full Google support in Windows 8 now, please?
Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr, the microblogging and social networking website, for $1.1 billion USD. Tumblr offers little revenue but lots of eyeballs if Yahoo can monetarize them. Now Yahoo is bidding for Hulu, the streaming video service. After years of ineffective responses while Google, Facebook, and others took large chunks of the online advertising market, Yahoo is fighting back. Can Yahoo reignite the momentum it had at the turn of the century? What do you think?
"Sources have described iOS 7 as 'black, white, and flat all over'. This refers to the dropping of heavy textures and the addition of several new black and white user interface elements." I couldn't be happier.
"Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered a large number of issues in the way various X client libraries handle the responses they receive from servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues."
"Google is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said." Sucks to be Google today, apparently."In the midst of the major press blitz surrounding its annual I/O Conference, Google dropped some unfortunate news about its instant messaging plans. In several places around the web, the company is replacing the existing 'Talk' platform with a new one called 'Hangouts' that sharply diminishes support for the open messaging protocol known as XMPP (or sometimes informally Jabber), and also removes the option to disable the archiving of all chat communications. These changes represent a switch from open protocols to proprietary ones, and a clear step backward for many users." That's why I always say: only suckers trust companies."The wave of departures is a sign of internal struggle, but amidst all the bad news, there is a glimmer of hope. According to an anonymous HTC executive cited by WSJ, the crucial HTC One is selling 'pretty good so far'. The executive revealed that HTC sold about five million One units since launch, a performance that is deemed encouraging. However, sales have been limited by the persisting supply issues that still plague the production of the HTC One." Finally some good news for HTC. Five million units amidst supply constraints is very impressive.
"Sony gave the PS4 50% more raw shader performance, plain and simple (768 SPs @ 800MHz vs. 1152 SPs & 800MHz). Unlike last generation, you don't need to be some sort of Jedi to extract the PS4's potential here. The Xbox One and PS4 architectures are quite similar, Sony just has more hardware under the hood. Weâll have to wait and see how this hardware delta gets exposed in games over time, but the gap is definitely there. The funny thing about game consoles is that itâs usually the lowest common denominator that determines the bulk of the experience across all platforms. On the plus side, the Xbox One should enjoy better power/thermal characteristics compared to the PlayStation 4. Even compared to the Xbox 360 we should see improvement in many use cases thanks to modern power management techniques." AnandTech does its usual in-depth thing.
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2006-01-10
"CNR is an awesome application, and many other Linux distributions are just so insanely jealous that they don't have it. "
Oh yea..... yea.... you have made my day! All you people who have created synaptic, gnome, kde, those who manage openoffice.org, dia, beagle, and othr great stuff - bow down to the almight CNR.
Dude if we wanted a open source CNR then we would have one. No one WANTS it! No one is jealous! We have synaptic and other clicky software installers AND we actually get to have our software instead of a subscription....
Keep paying, paying, paying cause I think you will find nobody else will keep doing it. I will have to commend MR since his hatred for MS gave him enough motivation to outdo bill. I mean I can still install win98 and all the apps I have for it. Can you do the same for 4.0? Nope...