Last night, Linspire announced in a press release the immediate availability of their CNR (Click 'N Run) client, also known as One-Click Software Installer, for the popular Linux Mint 4.0 (codename Daryna) distribution. Being based on Ubuntu 7.10, Linux Mint Daryna is a very nice customized and powerful distribution for users of all ages and occupations. The upcoming Linux Mint 5.0, dubbed Elyssa and based on Ubuntu 8.04, will also be supported on CNR.com.

On the 23rd of January, 2007, Linspire announced for the first time that they were working to extend their CNR (Click 'N Run) website for other popular Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE and Debian. The CNR service had already been available for all Linspire and Freespire users. Kevin Carmony, the President and CEO of Linspire Inc., stated that he had had enough with complaints from MS Windows and Mac users about Linux, and that there were too many distributions and each one had a different way of installing software: "When we started Linspire, we knew that we'd need to overcome this complexity. This led to Linspire's CNR ("Click 'N Run") technology."

Getting started with CNR on Linux Mint

￭ choose the CNR client for your Linux Mint distribution from here,
￭ save the file on your desktop,
￭ double click the file to install the CNR client,
￭ logout and log back in,
￭ start the CNR client from System Tools -> CNR and let it synchronize with the CNR.com website,
￭ and finally, you can grab your favorite applications with a single mouse click!

CNR is a 100% FREE and easy way to access over 44,055 desktop Linux products, packages and libraries, all with a single mouse click. Finding, installing and managing software on your desktop Linux computer has never been easier!