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Why didn't they use LibreOffice?
Surely it's 'A first look at the OS with which the Chinese government wants to replace Windows'.
Or perhaps, 'A first look an the OS the Chinese government wants to replace Windows with' if you don't mind dangling prepositions.
Interesting how far they went to make it look like XP. What are the chances that someone using it is frustrated when they learn they can't install ?
http://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/indian-government-is-la...
Their efforts could have been actually beneficial for everybody if they decided to contribute to ReactOS. That way they could have had something instead of LibreOffice skins and a dead-end Linux fork.
Does anyone else think that actually sounds kind of awesome? I mean without the crippling censorship and the high likelihood that everything you do is being reported back to the Chinese government, of course. But otherwise, it just seems to go one step beyond MATE/Mint (i.e. a "Windows-like" GUI with a Linux backend) and make what essentially looks like a Windows frontend on top of a Linux backend.
Is it just me or is this title missing a preposition? Surely it's 'A first look at the OS with which the Chinese government wants to replace Windows'. Or perhaps, 'A first look an the OS the Chinese government wants to replace Windows with' if you don't mind dangling prepositions. Interesting how far they went to make it look like XP. What are the chances that someone using it is frustrated when they learn they can't…
So it's a Linux kernel and TTY prompt with what looks like some kind of X11 skin designed to resemble Windows XP. Does anyone else think that actually sounds kind of awesome? I mean without the crippling censorship and the high likelihood that everything you do is being reported back to the Chinese government, of course. But otherwise, it just seems to go one step beyond MATE/Mint (i.e. a "Windows-like" GUI with a Li…
Is it, really? I've seen themes for the gnome desktop that look prettier and closer to Windows than that. So much so, that I've spent a couple of days working alongside my colleagues until one of them noticed that something was off.
To me, that looks like an amateurish throwback to the beginning of the century. I was expecting some reporting on how they would have Wine pre-installed and customized so that users could run Windows applications effortlessly or something like that.
Is it just me or is this title missing a preposition? Surely it's 'A first look at the OS with which the Chinese government wants to replace Windows'. Or perhaps, 'A first look an the OS the Chinese government wants to replace Windows with' if you don't mind dangling prepositions. Interesting how far they went to make it look like XP. What are the chances that someone using it is frustrated when they learn they can't…
It looks right to me. The adjectival clause describing the OS says "the Chinese government wants the OS to replace Windows". There's an implied "that" between "the OS" and "the Chinese government".
The subject of the second clause is 'the Chinese government', the verb 'to want to', the object 'replace Windows'.
This whole thing qualifies the first clause, 'the OS'.
But the semantic relation between these two clauses ("with") is not established.
It's like saying "A detailed look at the mountain John wants to dance with an elephant".
Doesn't make sense without the "on" which links the two bits.
PS: Excuse my pedantry; this stuff really interests me.
India has one too: http://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/indian-government-is-la...