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Chinese Pirates Launch Ubuntu That Looks Like XP

Posted by timothy on from the day-late-6.83-yuan-short dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ylmf, famous for pirating Windows XP, have just released a version of Ubuntu that looks just like Windows XP. Really, really similar. Apparently because Microsoft were cracking down on the actual Windows XP pirating — though I think they will still suffer for ripping off the GUI exactly." Of course, if that's the sort of look you like for your desktop, you need not risk any download cooties or language barriers; a reader in the Ubuntu Forums suggests this instructional video for giving Gnome the XP treatment.

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  1. Make WinXP look like KDE; Make GNOME look like . by hduff · · Score: 5, Informative

    Make WinXP look like KDE http://www.tech-atom.com/windows/ultimate-linux-transformation-pack-for-windows-xp.html

    Make GNOME look like WinXP http://ubuntu.online02.com/xpgnome

    Make WinXP look likeUbuntu http://pc-hacks.blogspot.com/2007/10/make-up-over-your-windows-look-like.html

    Make WinXP look like Enlightenment http://www.litestep.net/

    Make Linux look like Win95 http://fvwm.org/

    It all makes my head hurt.

    --
    "I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
  2. Re:Of course. Open source rarely gets the GUI righ by Cyberax · · Score: 5, Informative

    "The other classic vice of the Unix/Linux world is the one-way GUI. Input is graphical, but output is in a text window, because the GUI is wallpaper over some text-oriented application. This comes from a design flaw of UNIX - when you run a subprocess, you can pass in a list of arguments, but all you get back is an exit status and maybe a text stream. "exit" should have had "argc" and "argv" parameters via which the subprogram could return structured results to the caller. "

    From what century are you writing this? 18-th or maybe 19-th, I wager?

  3. doesn't look like XP by barnacle · · Score: 5, Informative

    It appears that the screenshot was taken from the real Windows XP, and Ylmf OS does not look much like XP, but rather exactly like Gnome.

    Here's a screenshot taken from someone who installed the ISO in VMWare and changed the locale to English: http://i50.tinypic.com/2lar9s0.jpg