[TriLUG] Most Windows-like Distro?

Carl Crider c.crider at gmail.com
Tue May 29 14:17:13 EDT 2007


You could design a KDE theme to be exactly what he wanted.

Linux-XP has a familiar WIndoze look.
http://www.linux-xp.com/gallery/

Linspire used the same names, "My Computer" etc. with a KDE desktop.
http://images.linspire.com/screenshots/ss-Linspire50-640.jpg

On 5/29/07, Chess Griffin <chess at chessgriffin.com> wrote:
>
> Magnus wrote:
> > Tim Jowers wrote:
> >> A friend wanted to know what distro looks the most like Windows. Any
> ideas?
> >> He wants _exactly_ like Windows if possible.
> >
> > There was someone who spoke in front of TriLUG years ago and presented a
> > desktop environment that looked almost exactly like Windows.  It really
> > had a lot of promise for users like this.  Unfortunately his motivations
> >  required a proprietary license for the software so it was not released
> > as an open source project and I think it is probably gone now.  I cannot
> > for the life of me remember the name of the desktop or the fellow who
> > created it... maybe someone can help me with that.  If I am wrong and
> > the project is still around it might be worth looking into.
> >
> > KDE can be made to look and feel very much like MS Windows but does not
> > come that way out of the box.  With a geek that is comfortable with
> > Linux closeby, it would only take a couple of minutes at most to get it
> > set up that way.
>
> I seem to recall a distro called "Linux XP" that is made to look very
> Windows like.  Have not tried it, though.
>
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