in early 2000s there was a project written in pascal that was called xpde.

it was a desktop environment that was replicating everything in xp, control panel, file manager, device manager, desktop, everything.

i don’t know how it got closed/discontinued. was it a legal issue or developers ran out of steam.

i remember acidrip. i remember it was a gtk program, written in some interpreted language: perl or python.

well i am not aware about the details of transnistria status, but i know that abkhazia and south ossetia are at first glance in the same situation: despite being internationally recognized parts of georgia, georgian law, law enforcement, military has no control there whatsoever, there is russian military, and both self proclaimed republics are getting money from russian government.

i can guess (but it’s interesting to clarify) that situation in transnistria should be similar: that’s a break away region with russian military presence, and it seems unlikely that moldovan law would have any even negligable influence on the region.

but maybe i am mistaken.

so transnistria voted? despite declaring themselves an independent state? do they participate in moldovan elections?