So there’s this whole eco-system of folk trying to make Linux look and feel like Windows XP. It’s so quaint and kind of clever I guess. Combine the robustness and open source vitality of Linux with the familiarity of the most popular version of Windows ever, and you should be onto a golden ticket.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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Ubuntu87
2 years 9 weeks 5 days 13 hours ago
Why would I ever wanna do that..?
I mean, really.
knowing-card
2 years 9 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago
Actually...
It can help make adoption/migration easier for some people.
Case in point: my mum agreed to try Ubuntu on her PC. She left me working on her machine while she went to do some shopping. I installed it for her and themed it like XP so that she wouldn't be uncomfortable at all. When she got home I'd finished already and was sitting watching TV. She used it for a while and then said to me "So when do you think you could install that Ubuntu thing for me". Obviously I'd done a good job!
Ubuntu87
2 years 9 weeks 4 days 9 hours ago
I see..
But then.. Why do we never hear the people who have switched from XP to Mac asking how to make Mac look like XP?
aboutblank
2 years 9 weeks 2 days 2 hours ago
re: I see..
People have been taught to expect that a Mac system should look and feel different to an XP system.