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 >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> LinuxUsers@socallinux.org >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers