GNU/Linux for professionals

What a professional may look in one operating system?

• No viruses, no trojans, no spyware.
• Improved hardware efficiency.
• Easy install and manage of software applications.
• One-click install and uninstall.
• Large amount of quality applications.

Hmmm. It is not so easy to achieve this goals. Everybody is aware of the danger of the viruses and all the malicious software that wants to hurt your computer and everybody is aware how hard is to do it.

So, just think how many resources it costs to have an antivirus software with”some” effectiveness against the viruses.Think about the damage that a possible virus can do to the system as well as installed software and important documents. And what if you loose this documents? Not good, definitely.
But what if you can avoid all these unwanted troubles and danger? Did you think how you can save your time and money? And probably you can earn more money just because of improvement of the work.

ok. There is solution for all these points.

Many people have fear of GNU/Linux and everything that have relation with it. But now I will show some ways how one can improve the work and benefit in one shot. And all of this will be achieved via GNU/Linux. ok. How a distribution can improve anyone’s work? Very simple – via avoiding troubles. So, there is a distribution known as one of the easiest in the world. That is Freespire. Freespire is Ubuntu-based distribution made for the home user. Take a look about it. If this GNU/Linux can satisfy your needs then probably is more profitable to you to take the opportunity instead of working in the old way.

Freespire home page

Software repository

Community forums

Freespire CNR problems

At the first time when I started to use Freespire I was so surprised. Version 2.0.8 is so well-designed and everything worked. Ehh, alomst everything. With the using of the system I found out that my installation is progressively failing. I do not know why. But the effect and defect of this was only to the CNR. Every time I tried to install something I got the message “CNR received dpkg error”.

Then my next actions was to investigate the reason this error happen. I have used the tool “strace” and the following log files show all the actions of the CNR client.

strace stderr cnr output

strace stdout cnr output

After the first investigation for this error I found how it is happened. It seems the cause of this was the CNR client itself. When the client have failed with installation of particular application then next installations somehow reports error but in fact there is no error and the application is installed correctly. For me, that is obvious bug in the CNR client appears in some particular cases. My case was VirtualBox but probably it may happen with other applications too.

To fix it and make the client work properly I just removed the virtualbox package manually via apt-get. After that CNR client began to work as it has to.