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windsurfer
on March 22, 2010
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No Really: Microsoft giving away Windows Image wit...
If that's the case, one could produce a tool that includes the image and "patches" it after installation, creating a free GUIfied windows.
pbhjpbhj
on March 23, 2010
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Could you install KDE4 on top - that might actually be a very good way to get a clean KDE4 over MS Windows if it works;
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows
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rbanffy
on March 23, 2010
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Great. You would get a KDE desktop without the Unix part on top of the famously solid Windows kernel. What could possibly go wrong?
pbhjpbhj
on March 23, 2010
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Lol. I'm assuming someone wants to do it, someone working on KDE, ...
rbanffy
on March 23, 2010
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To be fair, you could put a Unix-like lipstick on Windows with Cygwin. It will not change the underlying OS nature, but it will have lipstick on it.
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