Re: Windows to Linux migration - be or not to be

Dave <withheld@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was wondering if there was a distro that closely resambles an XP
environment. Any suggestions?

Sorry, can't help you there since I neither use Windows nor like
fancy desktops. But I am rather sure that already a lot of effort
has been spent on making a XP-lookalike desktop. There also seem
to be some companies that sell distros with Windows-similarity as
an important selling point (not that I would be able to judge if
these distros are worth the money) like

www.linspire.com
www.xandros.com
www.xp-linux.com

A free distro with the same aim seems to be

www.xpresslinux.com

or have a look at

lxp.sourceforge.net

but I guess it's not the only one and a bit of googling will pro-
bably

Also, would Linux desktop be able to write (with proper software) PC
formatted floppies and can floppies automount/ready to be written?

It's some time since I had to use a floppy but if I remember correc-
tly that's what the mtools are good for.

Regards, Jens
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