Bottom line is that Windows XP users want to run XP programs. XP users will most likely have older video cards, or have conservative hardware. To run XP programs on Linux you will need a modern up-to-date version of Wine <http://www.winehq.org/>
Thus my best recommendation is XFCE <http://www.xfce.org/> as a desktop ( works without fancy video cards, not a resource hog ) But a Linux distro as Ed stated modern and has the most packages, thus Xbuntu <http://xubuntu.org/> or Mint 16 <http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2534> Then install wine and also winetricks <http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks>which will most likely get running most if not all XP programs up and running. Also Ubuntu/Xbuntu should have a full decent Chinese language translation also supporting the local keyboards. But... if the system is to be deployed in China, and used by a Chinese citizen, then there only choice is RedFlag Linux <http://www.redflag-linux.com> I expect RedFlag to have Wine, but most likely winetricks will not run (it d/l files from MS and thus may fail because of the great wall) That's the best I think you can do, it's not a magic bullet, some assembly required On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:18 PM, James E. LaBarre <[email protected]>wrote: > On 01/13/2014 09:05 PM, Ed Nisley wrote: > >> The trouble with "it looks just like XP" distros is that, at heart, >> they're *not* XP: >> > > And actually, as far as setting something up for family members, looking > like Windows2000 would be more appropriate, as that's how I'd set up > WinXP/Vista/7 anyway (disabling theming, etc). I've attempted to set up > Win8 with the "classic" look, but their stripped-down look still has that > dorky pastel look. > > No, if I were setting up a Linux system, I'd prefer to *rejoice* in the > Linux-look. > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Feb 5 - Nginx > Mar 5 - March Meeting: 11th Anniversary > Apr 2 - Google App Engine > -- Joe /** ** Joseph T Apuzzo ** GPFS SME (Linux, Windows, AIX), Linux LPI-c1 ** http://www.linkedin.com/in/japuzzo/ **/
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