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Title: Linux Apes Vista With New Distro Called Vixta Post by: Alex on October 10, 2007, 02:54:09 PM Linux Apes Vista With New Distro Called Vixta
If Windows Vista is so terrible, how come there's someone in the open-source community who wants to copy it? That's the case with the latest Linux distro, a Vista look-alike called Vixta.The project is hosted by Sourceforge, the online home of numerous open-source efforts, large and small. Vixta fits into the latter category.There's hardly any information on the effort, other than a short blurb, which says it's based on the Fedora distro of Linux. Fedora is itself a project which evolved out of the Red Hat community, and is still sponsored by the enterprise-Linux powerhouse.Vixta appears to be the brainchild of one A. Paulo Santos, who has posted most of the messages on the short Vixta-info mailing list, including one announcing the availability of Vixta release 094.Vixta's home page touts the imminent availability of version 095, and enumerates the goals of the project as follows: -> Read full story... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/167847958/linux-apes-vista-with-new-distro-called-vixta |