Chinese Make Ubuntu That Looks Like Win XP

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Some of us, the elite computer scientists and technicians, like to "drive" the unique, high performance, best designed, products.

So, we are the group of intelligent computer owners who eschew Microsoft software products, designed to lock the users into long term indebtedness for "upgrades" that don't, and annual license fees that provide no substance, in flawed, million Microsoft Virus/Mal-ware bots/exploits.

The Chinese hack to make Linux resemble the look of Microsoft's GUI is, in my view, the equivalent to rebuilding a new Ferrari to look/perform like a Ford Pinto or Chevrolet Vega.

But, in the long haul, has no one here ever seen Vixta/Simplix Linux, Red Hat based, made to resemble Vista?

 
[citation][nom]caffeinecarl[/nom]America. Duh. All our stuff that used to be made here is now made there. Too bad they never managed to pirate quality control.[/citation]

Hmm, a person who work in an office wearing a tie doing engineering work and the guy who cleans the office toilet. I am sure the engineer knows how to clean the toilet. Manufacture jobs are no brainer work with low pay, hardly make a living. As long as we have the core knowlege people here doing engineering work, who cares which country manufacture product? :)
 
Blasphemy I say, LOL. Good job though, you would swear it is XP from that picture. I like using Ubuntu, it's been my main OS almost a year now. I prefer the Gnome interface over KDE just because it is less Windows like.
 
[citation][nom]timmahh[/nom]They better becareful.. If that little green button says "start" then that's a Microsoft patent infringement.[/citation]
It's in China dude, the Chinese will laugh at MS and MS will bow and kiss their asses just stay in their market.
 
sure, it may rip off the look of windows (which has always been it's weakest part, and is the look of a 3 gen old version anyway)

but I bet they haven't ripped of windows's compatibility!

in short:

can it run Crysis!?

[citation][nom]mono_on_wine[/nom]gnesterenko: Wine + the Windows version of the Mono framework can run the vast majority of Windows applications, I would assume that these folks had the foresight to think of this.[/citation]

bahahah, I think you overestimate the power of cheap Chinese knock off merchants!

 
[citation][nom]velocityg4[/nom]"It is scary how China is actually making everything they use in their own country. Maybe we should take some notes. They are becoming 100% self reliant." - logiticWell it would be that way in the US if we got rid of minimum wage, labor laws and environmental laws. As it was when we were the industrial powerhouse in the 1940's.[/citation]
actually there ARE labor laws I know because my uncle's a boss of a company in china
 
Somewhat interesting but totally pointless...

Linux already have different Desktop environments that look better then XP... some as nice as Windows 7... Some of the older people who only use IE and Hotmail, Burn disks... need no better then GNOME.
 
it's sad that they turned a beautiful ubuntu release and ga\/e it a fugly arsed make o\/er. windoze has always been ugly compared to ubuntu, specially when you add compiz. 😛
 
I was thinking the exact same thing. They'll probably do a Mac OS one next.
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I doubt it. This move by the Chinese is probably to circumvent having to pay Microsoft for software licensing but still be able to let less computer literate workers do their jobs without having to learn a new OS.

It's pretty much China committing large scale legal piracy because they only people that will punish China for this is China.

The only thing Microsoft can do is say, "We won't sell our software in China anymore," to which China will smirk and say, "OK!" Maybe Microsoft will somehow make it so none of their Software can be bought, sold and shipped to China.

So if China wants to reverse-engineer more Microsoft Products, then all they need to do is send somebody to the US to pick-up a copy of something and fly back to China with it.

And under the guise of "Open-source" and China's own copyright laws, they are doing it all legitimately. It sounds reasonable to save a couple of billion of dollars of licensing money to Microsoft.
 
I seriously doubt that it mimics much but the essential top level GUI, i.e., Direct-X or other APIs, so gaming, device, (and probably application support) support is still in the realm of Ubuntu's architecture.

meh
 
What about the program names, have they been named the same? (Eg: Defrag, Scandisk, and note/wordpad, minesweeper and patience...?
 
[citation][nom]JustinHD81[/nom]"It is scary how China is actually making everything they use in their own country. Maybe we should take some notes. They are becoming 100% self reliant."I hate to say it, but they are far from self sufficient, the items LPG, Coal, and Iron Ore, mostly come from Australia and without those resources China's production capacity would drop enormously. Every country should be aiming for self sufficiency, because if your country becomes to reliant on another (read America and China) you get the rather large financial entanglements which neither country can really afford to cut off (imagine if the Americans didn't buy all those cheap Chinese made products, who would?) The Chinese are great at saving money, because there's virtually no government support if you get ill, if someone in the family dies, if there's an earthquake (you might get lucky in that case) but because there's no government safety blanket for the average Zhou (read Joe) they have to live within their means, if income goes up, their expenditure doesn't necessarily rise with that increase in income. Most of them still remember what it's like to be literally starving and having to live off the most basic necessities. In the end, I think western nations really do need to create nations of savers, as this would in essence require less intervention from governments in quite a few area's. The last key to it all is housing, the cost of housing, which is an essential item, should not be outside the means of the average income.[/citation]
so your saying that China needs saving?I go there 2 times a year and i can assure you that China doesn't need saving
 
[citation][nom]sailfish[/nom]I seriously doubt that it mimics much but the essential top level GUI, i.e., Direct-X or other APIs, so gaming, device, (and probably application support) support is still in the realm of Ubuntu's architecture.meh[/citation]

actually its linux with a win XP theme
 
[citation][nom]crabsncancer[/nom]I doubt it. This move by the Chinese is probably to circumvent having to pay Microsoft for software licensing but still be able to let less computer literate workers do their jobs without having to learn a new OS.It's pretty much China committing large scale legal piracy because they only people that will punish China for this is China.The only thing Microsoft can do is say, "We won't sell our software in China anymore," to which China will smirk and say, "OK!" Maybe Microsoft will somehow make it so none of their Software can be bought, sold and shipped to China.So if China wants to reverse-engineer more Microsoft Products, then all they need to do is send somebody to the US to pick-up a copy of something and fly back to China with it.And under the guise of "Open-source" and China's own copyright laws, they are doing it all legitimately. It sounds reasonable to save a couple of billion of dollars of licensing money to Microsoft.[/citation]
a lot of microsoft's market is in China.they stop selling their products to China=they lose a LOT money
 
If you would install any software, much less an entire operating system, from an unknown hacker.... well, lets just say you are a lot more trusting than I ever will be.
 
Figures it's the Chinese... Not like you can bring a lawsuit against them. Shitty amnesty in my opinion. That's not to say that it's not cool...
 
Chinese....Monkey see, monkey do. In this case(and many others) Monkey see, monkey copy..
 
Tom's wants to be on MS's good side and call this copyright infringement, but wasn't the use of a windowed gui by Apple originally infringed on my MS itself? Who cares how they look, what's important is that it was originally copied in the first place by MS.

Of course, Tom's doesn't want to piss off an advertiser, so they take the politically correct line on infringement here that only the slanty-eyed yellow men are bad.
 
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