[bigdcaldavis]

I remember playing with CNR, and there was something about that made me want to run away, real fast.

Probably because you used CNR back when you still had to pay $50/year for it. Since then, they added a $20/year subscription level (no discounts on Click-n-Buy commercial software, and no choice of updating your OS to the newest version [such as from Linspire 5.0 to Linspire 5.1]). Now the $20/year level is absolutely free.

[sionnsar]

I see. Yes, it was something like that -- and I guess it was the subscription model I didn't like. I've bought distros before (incl. Redmond Linux) to try them out, so it's not like everything has to be free. But between the price and presentation I saw of CNR, it was too much.