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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anusha" data-source="post: 860071" data-attributes="member: 828">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: ->    * Absolutely free, in every sense;    * Spread Linux to the "masses";    * ABN – Absolutely No Config.;    * User-Friendly;    * Eye-catching. Familiar look and feel.<img src="http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/9792/2vixta0fulld336c1ftb2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />View: <a href="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/10/linux_apes_vist.html" target="_blank">Full Article</a> @ InformationWeek</blockquote>

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