A Fusion of Vista and Linux???

[va9rant]

hello, i happened to stumble on this though i have yet to download it and try it out myself... maybe some of you are interested :mayuri:

http://vixta.sourceforge.net/

...it happened when i was looking for ubuntu drivers for my laptop (cos my webcam, card reader and wifi nic don't work yet under gutsy gibbon) ::urahara:

[Woot_etc]

hmm, the screenshot looks very appealing, i might test it and see how it works. oh, that vista light, im going to burn it and test it tomorrow when i get my new case and all. do they have it in form of a torrent just incase the download messes up?

[benhur99ph]

That's Vixta. A linux distro made to look like vista. There was another one a few years back ... Lindows, I think. They basically do this to help newbies in the hard transition from MS to linux.

I don't know which distro it was based from and what package manager it uses. Hope its based from debian.... hehe :mayuri:

[va9rant]

yeah, Lindows --> now Linspire (commercial version) and Freespire (the free version), I've tried Xandros OS onced it worked great though it ain't free but live up to it, good for those who just one to get things done without worrying about configurations. :)

Vixta is based on Fedora Kernel and KDE. Actually, I saw an XP version before this. I do hope it's compatible with my hardware :D

[benhur99ph]

Well, since its Linux, your hardware shouldn't have a problem. If in some way, you need drivers, you can always find some on the net. Vixta might have (or probably) have their own forums. You might want to ask there first.

BTW, I'm downloading it now... hehe... :mayuri:

[Woot_etc]

i downloaded it, but then i realized... i was out of blank cds :mad: and its too late to go anywhere.

[benhur99ph]

hahaha.... you could try and install it onto a removable disk, most distros can do that... but that would require a lot of effort... It would be better to wait till morning and buy a blank cd...

or better yet .. try it first on vmware ... :D :mayuri: