On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 11:20:14 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 08:07:12 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 04:31:01 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
I was in a discussion here recently about 64 bit and how much
memory people had in their machines these days.
A somewhat unrelated topic is that Microsoft are in the
process of dumping XP.
Perhaps of interest:
http://www.reactos.org/
http://zorin-os.com/
Mmm, interesting, but I don't think either of them are the
right thing.
I used the term XP lookalike by accident. I should have said XP
clone or replicate or something.
The Linux kernel must be powerful enough these days to support
complete replication of XP functionality
Steve
My question would be: why bother? Why not just use linux?
People who can't afford modern machines or expensive proprietary
software is a market that linux caters for (almost) uniquely well
already.
