If Windows Vista is so terrible, how come there's someone in the open-source community who wants to copy it? That's the case with the latest Linux distro, a Vista look-alike called Vixta.
The project is hosted by Sourceforge, the online home of numerous open-source efforts, large and small. Vixta fits into the latter category.
There's hardly any information on the effort, other than a short blurb, which says it's based on the Fedora distro of Linux. Fedora is itself a project which evolved out of the Red Hat community, and is still sponsored by the enterprise-Linux powerhouse.
Vixta appears to be the brainchild of one A. Paulo Santos, who has posted most of the messages on the short Vixta-info mailing list, including one announcing the availability of Vixta release 094.
Vixta's home page touts the imminent availability of version 095, and enumerates the goals of the project as follows: ->
The project is hosted by Sourceforge, the online home of numerous open-source efforts, large and small. Vixta fits into the latter category.
There's hardly any information on the effort, other than a short blurb, which says it's based on the Fedora distro of Linux. Fedora is itself a project which evolved out of the Red Hat community, and is still sponsored by the enterprise-Linux powerhouse.
Vixta appears to be the brainchild of one A. Paulo Santos, who has posted most of the messages on the short Vixta-info mailing list, including one announcing the availability of Vixta release 094.
Vixta's home page touts the imminent availability of version 095, and enumerates the goals of the project as follows: ->
- Absolutely free, in every sense;
- Spread Linux to the "masses";
- ABN – Absolutely No Config.;
- User-Friendly;
- Eye-catching. Familiar look and feel.
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Pass.
I want to known what's the main attractive of vista rather aero. DX10?.. security? (no way!
I wonder if that is the motivation
The problem that a growing number of people have with Vista is not the way it looks, but the fact that it is so unstable and unreliable. Which, like it or not, Linux has it beat at both.
Last edited by Foub on 10 Oct 2007 - 10:41
.... er, right.
As I had said, like it or not, its a fact. You may choose to deny it, but a growing number of people know this first hand.
I know lots of people who would differ with you, myself included. So I know it works well, first hand.
You could probably find a lot of people who still believe that the Earth is flat as well, that is why there is still a Flat Earth Society, it still doesn't change the facts. You're no different than a creationist, despite all of the growing amount of evidence to the contrary you still hold your belief. They even cite a few 100 scientists, but those scientist, who accept evolution as a fact, number in the millions. "Praise be to Microsoft!!!!!!" Vista IS unstable and unreliable for a much larger number of people than not.
You could probably find a lot of people who still believe that the Earth is flat as well, that is why there is still a Flat Earth Society, it still doesn't change the facts. You're no different than a creationist, despite all of the growing amount of evidence to the contrary you still hold your belief. They even cite a few 100 scientists, but those scientist, who accept evolution as a fact, number in the millions. "Praise be to Microsoft!!!!!!" Vista IS unstable and unreliable for a much larger number of people than not.
Prove it
It's already got a larger market share than OSX and Linux. I'm sure there would be more of an outcry if it was as "unreliable" as you claimed.
Boy, talk about the pot calling the kettle black!! Here's one of the High Priests of Open Source accusing somebody else of creationism!
I got to give it to you guys though, you've got big brass balls if nothing else.
How much more of an outcry to do want? If it gets any worse, Microsoft will have to build a moat around its campus.
This thing is actually working right out of the box (or, off the cd, actually), as I type. Better than I can say about Neowins Shift Linux, which is 0 for 3, on trying to get it to work on my machines. I went with the older, .093 release though. Reading their forum, 094 is actually larger than a cd-r, unless you enable overburn. I was just to plain lazy!!
Disabled as much eye candy as possible right off the bat. Half of what I hate about Vista anyway! May have to play with this some more on another machine. Maybe see what an install goes like.
Last edited by cork1958 on 10 Oct 2007 - 19:28
This proves that Microsoft don't know how to code..
look at the spec's that Vista needs to run Glass or Flip 3d
now look at the spec's that linux needs to run Glass and there Ver of Flip 3D..
Linux uses far less spec's to run what Glass and Flip 3d
and we the windows users are getting tired of poorly coded software from people like you.
(MSGPlus!
it means ****** or jerker or however you may call it...
really a nice name, definately will not receive lots of seriously meant reputation here HAHA XD
Glassed Silver:mac
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