--- Ram Chandar <mkr1177hk@yahoo.com.hk> wrote:
> 
> Richard Rauch mentioned in one of the posts in the
> thread "advocacy"
> 
> > If one really wants a ``pop the CD in, and get
> something that has NetBSD
> > buried in it somewhere but looks and feels like an
> unbelievably stable
> > version of a Microsoft product'' 
> 
> Infact there is such an attempt on Linux which even
> goes to the extent
> to put "My Computer" and "Network Neighbourhood" on
> the Desktop.
> 
> This one is reported to have to be designed as a
> dropin replacement 
> of a Windows Desktop machine and would automatically
> discover
> the Windows Primary Domain Controller on the Network
> and configure
> itself as  a client with no user setup (their site
> says, even windows machines
> don't do that). There are other facelifts in
> printing, office suites etc
> 
> This is avaiable for free download. I don't have the
> bandwidth, so I was
> just wondering if somebody could take a look.
> 
> The site is www.elxlinux.com.
> 
> Ram Chandar.
> 

Corel attempted this. I'm downloading the isos now
just because I'm curious. I actually liked the Corel
way (even though it was quite buggy). I thought they
were onto something, but they dropped it. I wonder if
this is the extension of the old Corel project...

Andy

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