CNR stands for Click 'N Run it's the system used for installing stuff on the linspire linux distro although it can supposedly work on any distro.

http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/01/c … lling.html

I don't know how you use it with xandros though.

I never meant to imply that this wasn't for the EEE, apologies if it sounded like that. I was just explaining what CNR was,like I said it can be used with other distributions and from the look of it Asus have decided to release things for the EEE in that format.
The .cnr files seem to be some sort of config file for downloading the actual files. A quick google suggests you need a cnr-client program which presumably then uses this file to do the actual downloading and installing, no idea where you get this from though an apt-cache search doesn't turn anything up.

Last edited by Ian M (2008-08-23 7:16:13 am)

Another bit of googling reveals that xandros now own linspire so perhaps the xandros repositories contain the client. I haven't got those in my sources so I can't check that though.

Seems very odd that Asus would make these available without any obvious way of installing though. Some of the programs listed are a bit odd as well for example frozen bubble and mplayer are already included with the original OS so why would you want to install them again. Some of the stuff, mplayer for example has linspire branding on it when you click the link.

It's all very odd

Last edited by Ian M (2008-08-23 7:26:32 am)

It's very strange. I have a button on the Internet page of my new 901 that takes me to that site.
It may as well take me to the moon for all the good it does. 
Shame as there are some interesting apps there.

I think I might have an answer. The page says you need OS version 1.1 to use the site, so I guess that version includes CNR support.

Last edited by Ian M (2008-08-23 7:45:24 am)

I signed up to see if that would make any difference. No luck. They sent me a mail with access code from "no-reply@cnr.com". The clue's in the addy I think.
Complete and utter waste of time.

You can check the OS version of your Eeepc in the [Settings] > [System Info] tab. Mine is 1.0.x

You can check the OS version of your Eeepc in the [Settings] > [System Info] tab. Mine is 1.0.x

Where is this in advanced desktop, please ?  I have searched, but not discovered yet.

Last edited by danMdan (2008-08-23 11:36:40 am)

One can only hope!

oupsemma, that seems to be something purely relating to their website being exploited, causing people visiting it on Windows machines to end up with a Windows trojan - it doesn't seem to be anything to do with their software installation method (please correct me if I'm mistaken, though).

You are only at risk of being infected by the trojan if you used Windows when you visited us.
The exploit managed to install an iframe on hour site that connected to a server in Hongkong. As someone in the forum did notice this iframe could make some unwanted connections, but that did not mean you were infected (Windows users apart)

EDIT: I just saw this in one of the comments from their team;

Sean: pinoc is just one dummy domain used by the hackers to spread the trojan. The packages are fine and the repository for Elyssa is on a separate server.

(Emphasis mine. )

Last edited by Sage_Harpuia (2008-08-23 2:36:09 pm)

Sage_Harpuia wrote:

oupsemma, that seems to be something purely relating to their website being exploited, causing people visiting it on Windows machines to end up with a Windows trojan - it doesn't seem to be anything to do with their software installation method (please correct me if I'm mistaken, though).

Forwarned is forarmed , isn't it ?
Passwords , firewalls , anti-viruses , all sorts of precautions and good sense above all should prevail .

Personally,  I think viruses are hyped up by the anti-virus software companies and the trojans on that site only affected Windows so RELAX and be glad you have Linux.