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Ylmf OS is an Ubuntu distribution with a Windows XP look and feel. Looking at the screenshots, the creators have gone to a lot of trouble to really reproduce the look.

Ars Technica reports that Microsoft is not planning any legal action against its creators.

One of the fundamental decisions every person (read: geek ;) ) must make at some point in life is which operating system to use (and support until death). :) But there is a large number of operating systems that most people have never even heard of, and hence they cannot make a completely informed choice. :) Techradar recently featured a list of 10 less well known, open source operating systems.

The first entry on the list is ReactOS, originally created as an open source clone of Windows 95. Read more about it and the other 9 operating systems here.

VMWare have flagged smartphones as the next platform ready for the magic of virtualization. In a detailed article (found here) Computerworld explores the concept of virtual Operating Systems running on your phone. Imagine the possibilities… multiple profiles for multiple users, running Android on an iPhone (if licencing restrictions don’t apply) or even better, imagine the furore caused by running iPhone’s Mac OS based OS on a Windows or Android phone ;) A long way to go before that day dawns no doubt, though it is still worth thinking about.