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

[John Colvin]

On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 11:20:14 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
> On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 08:07:12 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 04:31:01 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
>>> I was in a discussion here recently about 64 bit and how much 
>>> memory people had in their machines these days.
>>>
>>> A somewhat unrelated topic is that Microsoft are in the 
>>> process of dumping XP.
>>>
>
>>
>> Perhaps of interest:
>> http://www.reactos.org/
>> http://zorin-os.com/
>
> Mmm, interesting, but I don't think either of them are the 
> right thing.
>
> 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
>
> Steve

My question would be: why bother? Why not just use linux?

People who can't afford modern machines or expensive proprietary 
software is a market that linux caters for (almost) uniquely well 
already.