How To: Windows XP Mode In...Ubuntu Linux?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Oct 7 20:22:39 UTC 2009


On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 03:59:47PM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
> Honestly, who the heck cares? Guaranteed, the underlying OS is exactly
> the same as it's always been, a kludged derivative of Windows 3.1.
> Perhaps they've acquired a couple of other proprietary doodads to
> throw in for managing photos or something, but in the end it's all the
> same story: security will be trivially compromised, anything you want
> to accomplish beyond the basics will require either the purchase or
> pirating of 3rd party software, and if you want support, well, good
> luck with that.

No it is a derivative ot Windows NT 3.1.  Nothing to do with windows
3.1 which ran on top of DOS.  The last windows to be related to that
was Windows Me.

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