Asus has quietly launched their latest offering, the Eee Download service, and judging from the initial support and initial response, they should have kept it a little quieter and made sure it was a little further developed before they unveiled it.
See, at first glance its a great idea, the Eee Download service offers the ability to “install software and multimedia in just one click,” which comes courtesy of the Click ‘N Run (CNR) format. If you remember back, CNR comes from Lindows Linspire fame shame, however CNR has since recently been purchased by Xandros.
So that all sounds great, Xandros owns a service and the version of Linux that is installed on the Eee PC’s is Xandros, that sounds like it should be a match made in heaven. However the purchase of CNR is a pretty recent one, and it seems that most of the software is still not actually compatible with Xandros. We can only hope that is something they are working on.
Basically this seems like a great idea, having used CNR before I can attest to its ease of use, and it typically makes Linux a little more friendly for those non-geeks that Asus is trying to attract with the Eee. Its just hard to think that Asus completely jumped the gun on this launch.
Of course keeping in mind that Xandros does make the CNR service a little more Eee-friendly, then users would have the option to (at current) 3,432 software applications and 148 audio and video files. Lets hope they get an updated version rolled out soon.
Read [Eee Download] Via [Eee PC News]
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