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How Much Of This Is Possible With NSIS?Patrick Patience
  This summer, I'm planning to dedicate a fairly large portion of time to learn more with the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System My the end of the summer, I hope to have done a little (big) project I'll be working on, it's called "Ubuntification". What it is is it will be a NSIS Installer Package that will change and patch many things on your Windows XP Operating System. The resources I'm using are:
Everything's GPL, cept a couple things like One of the screensavers, which is Creative Commons, and some of the Super Turbo Tango Patcher. But it's still all open source. So, here are the features I need, some which I'm not sure are possible with NSIS. If the feature is possible, and you know where the page is on the NSIS site, could you link me, and if it requires a plug-in, again link, and if it's not possible, do you have an alternative. Otherwise, I will try and figure everything out myself, I just wanna make sure this is possible first. Features I'm Looking For
That's basicially it all, there's a few more things I have in mind, but it's all Copying and stuff. I really would like to know about Prompting for Reboot, and silently running the uxtheme.dll Patcher. Any chance? Thanks in advance. ( categories: )
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I think you project is very interesting
an Ubuntu interface for Windows is very kick-ass
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As all of ya should know Microsoft is the Evil Empire, and Windows (a.k.a. Winblows or Windoze) is their greatest general, so please make a difference and install Linux or Free BSD on yer Windows comp.
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Well if you would like could provide a sample script for installing each one but like a puzzle it would have to be your job to put together
. I find playing around with nsis to be great. I learned not from manuals but from playing around the source code 
another thing I got the ubuntu font. If you want it I'll send it to you 
and yes you are allowed to use it I believe because it's in Ubuntu Repos too
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"I don't fear Computers. I fear the lack of them" Isaac Asimov
your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau
Great.
I would love if you could post sample scripts, I will defiantly work on piecing them together. Do you know where I can find the NSIS installer source for other Open-Source Programs? And do you know of any good Ubuntu login and boot screens? I found a fairly good boot screen, but the three login screens I found didn't look good enough.
Fonts sounds good - monopurpura(at)gmail(dot)com
Thanks.
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Well
well you could go looking at gnome-look.org. They have some great themes and screens there for linux
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"I don't fear Computers. I fear the lack of them" Isaac Asimov
your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau
Sure
Sure I'll work on them right away and I'll post the samples with a readme file
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"I don't fear Computers. I fear the lack of them" Isaac Asimov
your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau
Edit.
Sorry, actually, I realized the Super Turbo Tango Patcher was a modification of this:
http://www.xpize.net/
So, the source is available, and it's a project just like mine, so I am going to modify it, and ask the owner of the Super Turbo Tango Patcher if he will allow my to incorparate his project into this.
Because XPize has so many great features, and especially, a system restore point.
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