Got XP?

khess 0 Tallied Votes 212 Views Share

Since most legitimate vendors are no longer able to sell or install Windows XP after June 30, I have an option for you: Use Linux. That's right, retain that XP look and feel goodness without violating any rules or creating other problems for yourself by using the little known XPDE (XP Desktop Environment). Even better, you install it on the uber-goodness (and freeness--is that a word?) of Linux.

The good folks at XPDE offer you an almost exact replica of the XP Desktop on Linux.

Familiar XP icons, taskbar, and cascading menus coupled with the speed and stability of Linux is just what you need to continue the XP legacy.

I know I'm the Linux maven in these here parts but I appreciate good software no matter where it comes from and XP is good. It's so good in fact, that I support the effort to keep it alive. XP is so good that the large (100K+ employees worldwide) company I work for isn't switching to Vista. IBM isn't switching either.

Projects like XPDE and Wine make it that much easier for companies, individuals, and governments to make the switch to Linux. Armed with the XP Desktop Environment, Microsoft Office and other applications under Wine, and Linux under the hood: It just doesn't get any better than that.

TheNNS 112 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

this has been said over and over and over again. can anybody right about something else?

Back the to the post, in my personal experience, what operating system you use is up to you and you should use whichever one meets your needs best. If you need to run a few programs for xp, do it in xp. It's too much of a hassle to get them all working with wine. I personally I'm more efficient using windows, but I like to configure my server with linux. OS X is a great multitasking OS. Any BSD os is pure crap. Unix is similar to linux. Solaris is good for some things, etc, etc

kickoff3pm 0 Light Poster

Well if I could get the wireless networking drivers for this laptop I would be more then happy to dump Fista. But I would be replacing it with binux, no chance.

happygeek 2,411 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster

Dell is still selling new machines with XP, under what it ironically calls the Windows Vista Bonus scheme :)

khess 95 Practically a Master Poster

That IS a bonus!!!

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