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  1. March 17th, 2003, 07:39 AM #1
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    XPde makes X11 look like XP/2K

    I originally posted this in general chit chat... but apparently JUPM doen't think that those are front page worthy... so move it if you want...

    My buddy just sent me a link in to this in my email...

    Don't ask me why you'd want to do this... but it is rather interesting...

    What is XPde?

    It's a desktop environment(XPde) and a window manager(XPwm) for Linux. It tries to recreate the Windows XP interface to-the-pixel point. Nothing more, no clipboard compatibility between Gtk and Qt applications, no emulation of Windows applications, no unification on the widgets of X applications, just a desktop environment and a window manager.
    http://www.xpde.com/

    I feel a lawsuit coming on... m$ is going to have a field day with this one!
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  2. March 17th, 2003, 11:37 AM #2
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    That's Gawd awful!


    Why would someone do such a thing???!!!

    It's heresy!

    I'm getting an ice-cream headache just looking at it.

    Why? WHY?? WHY???
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  3. March 17th, 2003, 11:55 AM #3
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    that is absolutely terrible, They should have a law suit against them for doing such a thing to a great OS

    what is wrong with KDE or Gnome
    What colour do smurfs go when they hold there breath???
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  4. March 17th, 2003, 04:45 PM #4
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    Originally posted here by thread_killer
    That's Gawd awful!


    Why would someone do such a thing???!!!

    It's heresy!

    I'm getting an ice-cream headache just looking at it.

    Why? WHY?? WHY???
    LoL That was my thought! I would never do such a thing to a *nix box.
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  6. March 17th, 2003, 08:03 PM #5
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    Well, one reason might be for users that are just moving to *nix, but I don't see why they can't use KDE, I mean, it looks like Windows. My guess is that people are just to used to Windows, and something that doesn't look like it, just isn't right to them. But who knows.
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