I was wondering: " how is it that Micro$oft has not shut this down?"...

LOL, it is distributed through the http://piratebay.org, awesome!
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4206516/TinyXP_Rev09_-_eXPerience
Checkout the comments on the torrent site.

I would be very surprised if you could get these (forks?)  OSes to
update with the M$ server.  I would also be a bit concerned with the
lack of source code.

Cool project...

Chris...

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Roger Rustad <roger.rus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You're right...completely unrelated.
>
> Best delete this and move along.  Nothing to see here.
>
>
> On Mar 19, 2011, at 3:01 PM, Mark Holmquist wrote:
>
>>> Those of you who hate Windows bloat (but need Windows to test on a VM or
>>> something) should check out TinyXP and TinyVista.  All of the programs you
>>> hate (e.g. Windows Media Player) can easily be replaced with the stripped
>>> down open source ones you like (VLC, etc).
>>>
>>> (Not sure how the licensing works out, but I'm assuming you can install it
>>> if you have a legit Windows license.)
>>
>> Care to walk me back to how this relates to Linux? Seems to me that it's a 
>> proprietary OS, with licensing requirements and probably a lot of shady 
>> licensing problems, based on an even more proprietary OS with even more 
>> licensing requirements and shady licensing problems.
>>
>> --
>> Mark Holmquist
>> Student, Computer Science
>> University of Redlands
>> marktrac...@gmail.com
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