Old Machines and XP for Linux(not really a D topic)

[Stanislav Blinov]

On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 11:20:14 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:

> I used the term XP lookalike by accident. I should have said XP 
> clone or replicate or something.
>
> The Linux kernel must be powerful enough these days to support 
> complete replication of XP functionality

ReactOS targets exactly that.

But I still don't follow. Modern Windows software that would run 
on XP is getting extinct, and even if it would run on XP, it's 
unlikely that the boxes you mention would suffice anyway.

If you're talking Linux, why not just use Linux?