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  1. 12-05-2004 #1
    CoriolisSTORM
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    Is there a way/project underway to make KDE work with XP?

    Folks a thought just occured to me, and I'm almost completely new to Linux. Would it be possible for someone to take KDE or Gnome or some other X Windows Desktop Manager and convert it to work as the default shell in XP? I know there are a couple of Blackbox and Fluxbox clones out there, but that's not the same...
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    I'm pretty new to Linux myself, but I don't think that there's a way to do that... maybe you could run an emulator or something, but that would take a bloody awful lot of resources, having Windows and GNOME/KDE. *shudders*
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    Re: Is there a way/project underway to make KDE work with XP

    I don't think Microosft will ever allow a 3rd party userinterface to run on their ' sweet' XP.
    As this woulld replace the core of Internet Explorer.
    Slim change this will ever happen.
    As far to me, XP has only one value; gaming. nothing more.
    It's the only reason I keep a 40GB partition alive with XP on it.
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    ... but what about Litestep and all of the other alternative shells for Windows, Microsoft hasn't stopped them. Wouldn't it be possible to make a KDE or Gnome clone for Windows?
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    i don't know for sure, but litestep appears just to be a window manager while GNOME and KDE are full desktop environments. That is why there are *box clones out there. The *boxes are just wm not de.

    just my thoughts
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    I think Cygwin has a port of KDE for windows.
    Check out Cygwin's site : http://www.cygwin.com
    More precisely, http://x.cygwin.com
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