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Re: [News] Hasta La Vista, Windows Vista

  • Subject: Re: [News] Hasta La Vista, Windows Vista
  • From: Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:17:03 -0500
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:19:39 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

>> Kde 2.2.1 was the current version when XP was released.
> 
> Behold the progress (pictures are louder than words):
> 
> http://schestowitz.com/IMG/blog/windows-ajax.jpg (XP 2001)
> http://schestowitz.com/IMG/blog/longhorn_beta.jpg (Longhorn 2005)

The second image appears to be a a photoshoped (or Gimp'd as the case may
be) hack of an XP desktop with some images from Longhorn.  That "start"
menu is cearly a themed XP start menu.  It doesn't have any of the Longhorn
changes, such as searching, and all the icons have XP names, not Longhorn
names.

So yeah, it's no wonder it looks so similar.  It's the same OS.  Of course
I'm not suprised that you would stoop to such deception.

> http://kde.org/screenshots/kde2shots.php (KDE 2.x, 2001)
> http://kde.org/screenshots/kde350shots.php (KDE 3.x)

Yes, let's behold.

http://kde.org/screenshots/images/large/kde2final_2.jpg
http://www.tuxmachines.org/gallery/kde35/prop1

They don't look that dissimilar other than the the theme.

> And let's spice it all up with some parallel X11 progress.
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUSn-jBA3CE
> http://youtube.com/watch?v=lawkc3jH3ws

X11 has come along way with XGL, that is true.

> 2001 Was a different era altogether.
> 
> Today, in 2006, Linux makes Windows (even OS X) looks amateurish -- a
> compromise to those fearing an upgrade.

Linux doesn't look that different from what it did 5 years ago either.

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