WinUtuxu: Good or Bad Campaign for Ubuntu Linux?
When sight seeing on some websites, I found quite an interesting website that has an operating system called WinUtuxu (or an alternative link pointed here). If you don't understand Arabic, at least you can see some screenshots from the link available at the top of the page, or you can read the English translation - thanks to Google Translate - here.
When you go to the download page, you can see that it links to rapidshare, well I guess if you don't actually have a rapidshare account, you might not enjoy downloading WinUtuxu.
After looking at some of the screenshots and doing some googling, I can now see that WinUtuxu is actually a Windows XP with preinstalled Windows-based open source softwares. If you wonder why I relate this with Ubuntu, it's because the name - WinUtuxu - has some similar alphabets as Ubuntu. I guess the author wants to relate this Windows version with Ubuntu and Tux - the name of the penguin, the symbol of Linux kernel - at once.
I also found the co-relation of WinUtuxu and Ubuntu by reading this Ubuntuforums thread. There was a discussion about whether this would be a good or bad campaign for open source world. Some agree that it's good, but many others don't. However if you plan to download and install this Windows with a new look - hey, it's definitely not a Linux distro! - then you might be aware of the copyright policy.
For me, I can not decide whether it's good or bad. From one point, it's good to see this effort - making people more familiar with open source softwares. But if we see from other point of view, it's bad because it's breaking the law.
Wanna try to download and install this OS before the website is closed by the authority or the rapidshare hosted files deleted? The choice is yours.
When you go to the download page, you can see that it links to rapidshare, well I guess if you don't actually have a rapidshare account, you might not enjoy downloading WinUtuxu.
After looking at some of the screenshots and doing some googling, I can now see that WinUtuxu is actually a Windows XP with preinstalled Windows-based open source softwares. If you wonder why I relate this with Ubuntu, it's because the name - WinUtuxu - has some similar alphabets as Ubuntu. I guess the author wants to relate this Windows version with Ubuntu and Tux - the name of the penguin, the symbol of Linux kernel - at once.
I also found the co-relation of WinUtuxu and Ubuntu by reading this Ubuntuforums thread. There was a discussion about whether this would be a good or bad campaign for open source world. Some agree that it's good, but many others don't. However if you plan to download and install this Windows with a new look - hey, it's definitely not a Linux distro! - then you might be aware of the copyright policy.
For me, I can not decide whether it's good or bad. From one point, it's good to see this effort - making people more familiar with open source softwares. But if we see from other point of view, it's bad because it's breaking the law.
Wanna try to download and install this OS before the website is closed by the authority or the rapidshare hosted files deleted? The choice is yours.
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