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I am a software professional, and I usually write about programming, networking, Linux and other technical stuff. Occasionally, I develop small projects to keep my skills brushed up.
About
l3net – a layer 3 networking blog
A blog about IP networking, network and system administration, Linux/UNIX programming and testing. The blog also includes some small projects I run in my free time.
l3net - a layer 3 networking blog 
i rarely post to web sites, but i must let you know how much i enjoyed your unshare and clone articles. i had no idea these corners of the linux kernel existed, and i want to thank you wholeheartedly for shining a light into them. i can already envisage several ways i can use your advice, and look forward to reading more of your articles.
Thank you very much for your comment.
Question
I recently replaced XP on the PC’s for some relatives and went to the process of learning how to:
1. Install Lubuntu
2. Strip unneccesary stuf, only install (since it is for retired people)
– Kingsoft office (with painfull process of localization, because it resembles office the most)
– Sylpheed Mail (because it resembles Outlook Express)
– Gupzilla (with windows skin resembles IE9), in stead of chrome
– Default media viewers for picture, music, video’s
3. Install Luna Windows XP theme on Lubuntu
4. Install Wine
– install Windows versions of their games, and a typical dutch cards game cald klaverjassen
5. Firejail mail and browser
6. Install Ubuntu software center (it is the mos user frienly I know at the moment)
7. Enable Firewall (for inbound only)
That is all they needed. Now the news of one succesfull conversion, generated new requests which I am not looking forward to manually converting them myself (because all my customers are on windows, I am staying on Windows myself).
Why is not somebody offering this as a distro? How much hours would it take for a Pro to create such a distro?
Building a new distro is a lot of work. Not only to put all the packages up together, but also to maintain them and build new distribution versions, keep a website, do customer support, maybe keep a forum running etc. Congratulations for your conversions!
Time for another DE memory usage comparison? I still refer to your 2013 material as it was great. Thanks for your efforts
Yes, I have a new one coming in the next two months.