It has become very clear that in order to make serious inroads onto the desktop
PCs of Joe and Jane Q. Public, Linux needs to keep improving ease of use.
Continuing with the ???it??™s so easy??? theme, Linspire has developed one of the most trouble-free software
installation processes in use on a desktop Linux system: Click-N-Run (CNR). This process
connects users with tons of applications and requires almost no effort at all to install.
Click-N-Run has been described, accurately, as apt-get taken to new, graphical heights. Apt-get is a
tool used to manage software packages. The beginnings of apt-get are most closely associated with
Debian and .DEB packages, yet apt-get has been adapted to handle RPMs and is widely available
for platforms other than Debian.
Apt-get is complemented by detailed man pages, although it is a command-line application. A
graphical front end called Synaptic is available, but it is not as easy to use as CNR. The CNR process
enables you to select the desired application, click a little green button, and wait while the package
downloads and installs. You need only an existing Linspire installation and to click the green globe
with a running man in the middle to get started. Here are some of the CNR tool??™s features:
The following description is based on the Freespire version of CNR.
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