Hi Everyone.

Ive seen on some other forums people asking about the English version of Linux XP. Ive also tried downloading this ISO and the site seems to be down. The link to the English version of Linux XP is :
http://www.linux-xp.com/download/ if any of the members want to have a look.

But Ive also found www.linuxsales.info which has the English ISO for sale from their site, but they only sell in the UK, a bit of a pain if your outside of the UK.

Hope this helps
Phillip

Sounds odd to me, first you buy a pc and pay overprice because of a Windows XP on board, and the next thing you do is wipe it out (like throwing the cash to trash) and install a XP-like Linux on it. What did I miss? Well, I guess there are some people, after all, who are odd enough to pay for nothing

I looked at their site, and the 1st screenshot on the homepage matches what I thought : It is much better than XP.

So people probably make such distros for the same reason that GDM is provided with exactly the same faces than the default w$ ones, but with a far superior quality, and much more pleasant :

1) To show Linux can be as good as (and better than) Window$ (XP)
2) Because the XP interface isn't that bad, it's just ugly but Linux XP seems to have fixed that...
3) For people like me, that would like to find a bootable cd looking just like win2K (in my case, but others shall want other win "distros"), so they can boot on it and make the man/ladie at the library/school's informatics room/other place think that they're nice sheeps and use waht's provided, but they actually want to feel comftable under linux / want to hack the system / ... :-)
4) For people that want to experiment Linux without being destabilized
5) etc.

I think the whole idea of having a Windows looking distro is to help people with transition from Windows to Linux.
Ive been involved with computers since 1982, and I kinda sit in the middle of the two main groups.

The first group is those who know enough to switch on their machines, log onto the internet, check emails, surf a bit, write letters etc and maybe use a computer at work. Thats all they know and all they wanna know. This is probably why their machine get infected with viruses, adware and spyware etc.

The second group is those who maybe work in IT, or who can do linux with their eyes closed.

I consider myself well above average with computers, I can build them and pull them apart. But I know that there are many people who have forgotten as much as I know, but compared to the first group Im considered experienced.

The problem is most windows users become lazy, Im one of them so Im not trying to insult people. Its too easy to put a cd in the drive, click an exe file and have it installed. People use windows because theres so many computers with it installed at work, plus shops like PC World sell machines with it on, so its in your face. The first group of people want ease of use, they dont want to have to learn about ext2/3 reiser partitions, compileing stuff or adding repositories just to get their linux systems to work just as good as windows, they want to put the windows disc in the cd-rom click a few yesses and it works, with no extra mucking about. They want to play dvds without 15-20 mins extra work installing xine and all the codecs. Plus they would have to get used to all the linux names for software.

So basically if a linux distro comes out that looks a bit like what they are used to, and helps make the transition to linux, then its gotta be good ????? I still think that linux needs to be made easier for the windows lazy to use. If people are used to something then they are more reluctant to change.

There are two 3rd party utils for Ubuntu called Easy Ubuntu & Automatix which when installed and run they will automate the installation of the multimedia codecs for DVD playback, if these could have been done by Ubuntu and installed by the installation CD, then this could have been a great selling point for linux.
I appreciate the hoopla about licensing and copyright on codecs like w32codec, but would I be right in thinking that by incorporating these utils in the OS, that Ubuntu still would be open source, and not infringing on copyrighted gear ? Im thinking that they cant distribute the codecs with the OS because they would have to pay license etc, but having a program that would go and automatically set them up for you wouldnt come under the lawsuit stuff.

I read somewhere that reverse-engeineering is allowed in all cases for compatibility issues, so I don't think that installing this sort of programs would be a problem. Basing myself on what I saw in various forums, Linux gurus (& distro-makers) use linux in a for-geeks-by-geeks way. And they wouldn't want to hear anything about putting copyrighted (but free) software on their CDs.
Open-source is always better if you can have it, but these people must accept that we can't run linux properly without a few codecs.

Anyway, Linux XP seem to have a problem on their server, so you should try later.

And if some experienced users are interested in making an easy-to-use distro, please join me :
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...44#post2433944

The bittorrent link seems to work, even if BT tells me I've got 18 days levt ^^.