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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,12:52 QUOTE
I'm planning to make my own Linux distribution which has this characterisitics:

- it can run comfortably on slow machines
- looks like Windows a lot

What's the motivation? At the place I currently work I have some old machines which I intend to use as Internet workstations. Since the average users get pretty much confused when they just glance at linux like GUIs it has to look like windows as much as possible.
Since DSL is the first Linux that worked comfortably on one on my machines, I'd like to use it for this project.

So what are the legal issues about this? Under what license is DSL exactly, and can I make this without worrying about legal stuff?

Is there anyone interested in joining/helping me in this project?

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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,16:08 QUOTE
Do we really need another windows look-alike?

There are so many. Anything from knoppix, to red hat, slackware, even debian can be made to look and feel like windows.

What the world needs is fewer M$ look-alikes, because the windows interface sucks.

Play with DSL and Fluxbox for a while, and you'll do what ke4nt1 and I did. Go back to windows, and double-click the title bar of a window. "double-clicking on the titlebar in XP sucks!" as ke4nt said.

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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,17:20 QUOTE
That's easy.

Install DSL + icewm extension.

Then rename all of the desktop icon text for the novice user.

For example, replace "Sylpheed" with "Email Client" and "Firefox" with "Web Browser".
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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,18:03 QUOTE
SaidinUnleashed, i know that WE don't need more windows like OSes and GUIs, but I do. need it in my case. Not because of me but because of technically stupid and uneducated people that are confused ba even the slightest change in the GUI. I know that it shouldn't be that way, but it's not a perfect world.

My goal here is to trick the average user and make him belive he's using Windows. Maybe that way people will step by step get used to Linux instead of Windows.

I've tried Knoppix and Mandrake but they are to demanding for the machines I have.
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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,18:05 QUOTE
cbagger01 I tried icewm with Mandrake but all together worked toooo slow. Maybe it was Mandrake's fault, I'l give it a try with DSL. Where can I find ice-wm extension for DSL and how do I install it?
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