Linux Solutions

Linux users who adore the gaze and sense of Windows Vista would love to have ‘Vixta’ – the new Fedora based distro. With Vixta, you get fresh widgets with a traditional KDE supported interface. Like Windows Vista, ‘Vixta’ also has task bar and start menu with user-friendly and eye-catching features.

The menu system in Vixta apps may be similar to that of Windows, but all the programs behind the scene are Linux equivalents. So, you have Konqueror as a substitute of Internet Explorer and Openoffice as a replacement for Office. Vixta comes with an installable live CD which is available in Portuguese as well as English. The verbose boot output and the plain boot screen of the live CD is not that much exciting, but the splash screen in the middle of the boot process somehow makes up for the remaining output.

Vixta’s kernel was piled up to set aside space, but it does not comprise the modules required by current gears to trigger CPU scaling. Vixta has a system updater and software manager which may have shipshape edges with Fedora repositories arrangement. The menu comes with two panes – one on the right which contains menu headings and the other on the left exhibits the applications accessible beneath each heading.

Unfortunately, there were not loads of functions in the menu except modest KDE apps. But, there are numerous useful system settings and tools given in the menu. Sound card configuration is one of the impressive tools as Vixta detects almost every sound chip automatically.