Are Linare's software repositories up and running yet?

Good question, I've been wondering about that myself. To be honest, the silence regarding this distro has caused me to move on to other distro's for the time being. I check their website fairly regularly, also this newsgroup, and it seems like it just went stagnant a few weeks after it was released. I just got into Linux about a year and half ago and in that time I've tried out dozens upon dozens of distro's, so seeing one fade away isn't new to me. However, I can't recall a distro as polished ,unique and functional as Linare, that so obviously had so much thought and effort put into it that went so cold so fast. It really boggles my mind. I hope it will prove to be just a temporary halt, and nothing would help get it moving again like having the custom repositories up and running.
Crossing my fingers!
Kevin

Where's the Linare Rep who was monitoring this forum?

Another good question! :-) I just reinstalled Linare and nope, the custom repositoriees aren't up yet, which seems ominous to me. I have got it running fine using some regular Fedora Core 2 repositories, but if the Linare repositories aren't up by now, months after the distro was released, it really looks like they might not ever be up.What a shame.
I seem to recall that someone who used to post here was in contact with Linare, maybe if they see this they will respond.
I'm not writing Linare off as of yet, it's just too polished a distro for that.But I seriously worry over putting too much time into setting up a distro that may already be on it's way to becoming obsolete.
Here's hoping someone in the know will see these last few posts and give us some insight.
Crossing my fingers!
Kevin

Linare is, to say the least, stagnant. I worked as a writer for their site, linuxtimes.net, for a few months. I've since quit because I see where their site, and their product, is going: Down. Linare is NOT a useful operating system. It is FC2 with an XP theme. There is no value added for the money you pay. The repos still don't work. There is no support that I've yet seen (though they claim it comes with free tech support). In all the time I worked there, I got the impression that there was one or two people running the whole outfit - maybe three at the most. Nothing got updated on time. No features were really added. The site was almost completely vanilla from the CMS and stayed that way. I haven't seen any updates to the distribution - but then again, the repos don't work so how could I.

Linare is not something you want to use. Get FC2 and XPde if you want something like that. It'll be better, more secure, and faster. Linare was buggy, useless and added no value from FC2.