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Just a question (and once again i didn't know which forum to put it under so feel free to move it )
I'm looking for the distro that looks the ...
- 05-23-2007 #1
A "windows-clone" distro
Just a question (and once again i didn't know which forum to put it under so feel free to move it
)
I'm looking for the distro that looks the most like windows vista, but xp will do if theres no vista clone yet. The parts i specifically want in the distro are; a menu that looks just like vista (where you type in the menu and it searches it).
The best distro ive seen, in terms of a windows clone, is Famelix . Although they havent updated there website to include there new distro (that link has a great screenshot of the new version)
Once again, i especially like the menu/start bar.
So which distro is a good clone of windows, and where can i get the same menu bar famelix uses (to put on my mandriva spring).
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- 05-23-2007 #2
Any distro with KDE can be made into what you're looking for. If it's only the startbutton you're after...
I don't know to much about Gnome, but Mandriva comes with both Gnome and KDE if I'm not mistaking.
Try KDE-look.org and shop around.
- 05-23-2007 #3
How about Xandros?
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
- 05-23-2007 #4Not the actual button but the menu that pops up, sorry i think my question is a bit unclear.Any distro with KDE can be made into what you're looking for. If it's only the startbutton you're after...
I think somewhere i was told you have to pay for xandros. Do you have to pay for it?How about Xandros?It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- Voltaire
- 05-23-2007 #5Oh, well, you can change the menu around to whatever you might want. But you want the search function in your menu to. I was running SuSE 10.0 one and halve year ago (oh how time flies!), and it had KDE with a search function that looked through the K-menu. I haven't seen in since, but it exists.
Originally Posted by tommytabib
Come to think of it, there are some addons to KDE that make it's search function behave more like that of Firefox.
- 05-23-2007 #6Linux user #126863 - see http://linuxcounter.net/
- 05-23-2007 #7
At one time there was a free version of Xandros called Open Circulation Edition (OCE) downloadable from their website, but I can't seem to find it anymore. You can still download the demo version of one of their distributions just to see if it's what you're looking for. If not, no harm done.
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- 05-23-2007 #8Linux Enthusiast
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Just saw this one on Distrowatch:
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EDIT: I guess it doesn't allow me to link to a picture, so just scroll to the end of the News section to see the screenshot.
It's a distro called Famelix! The biggest problem, for you that is, would be the fact that it's only available in Portuguese or Spanish. It looks like KDE, and according to Distrowatch it's based on Kurumin (another Brazilian distro). Generally, I'd say it's just a matter of configuration more than anything else."Today you are freer than ever to do what you want, provided you can pay for it!" --Bad Religion
- 05-23-2007 #9
Suse's menu looks much different from Windows' but as far as I know it has the "search+highlight" functionality built into its menu. I don't know if this is just a standard KDE feature which can easily be implemented with other menu's.
- 05-23-2007 #10
Any distro can look like Windows, just get a theme for the desktop enviroment. I'd say you had the best change of that with KDE, so get Kubuntu. Kubuntu - The KDE Desktop and themes at KDE-Look.org


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