Bad blood over Linspire's sale to Xandros    Monday, July 07 2008 @ 03:08 PM EDT Contributed by: sde One of the first commercial Linux distributions aimed at the average computer user, Linspire, has just been sold to Xandros and undergone a name change to Digital Cornerstone. Xandros may not be very commonly known, but it is the distro being used by Asus on the EeePC. Since forming in 2001, under the name Lindows, the focus of the Linux distro that has been marketed by the company is to provide an integrated means of running Windows applications from within the Linux desktop along with a seamless and painless means to obtain new software and update existing tools. This was achieved through a Debian-based core system using WINE, complete with a fee-based 'apt'-derived package distribution and installation tool, called CNR (Click And Run), which has since been released for use by other Linux distributions. A Windows-like desktop was also an attempt to ease the average computer user into the new environment. Read more   [ Views: 994 ]

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