Hi,
the proposal was from me. Maybe some of you know that I work on the text for a new help version.
To do so, I use different sources, depending on what I can get. Sometimes documentation is very good, sometimes there is none, sometimes even command/? gives no information and I have to guess, read books or run tests.
So I have to run each command in a virtual machine and test it. And when doing this, I noticed that some programs are really good but some...
Among others, all programs that have to do with creating a file system have problems with fat32 support.
One of them is an empty GUI.
So I had the idea with summer of code.
Well, what can happen?
First it is a chance to find out how Google will handle it.
www.reactos.org got support for at least three years, students from all over the world worked on it, there were some smaller steps, but creating a working win clone is far far away.
FreeDOS has a lot of single commands that could be done within the time, so there are chances that some of them could be finished. fat32 support for at least some commands would be a doable step.
The next thing is that it may be possible that nobody at google "calculated" with such an old OS and gives you a chance.
I am not sure how google will decide, and I am not sure if they take you this or next year, but I think it is worth a try.
for this reason I will wear a german t shirt at today meeting with a monkey and the text:
sollte - hätte - könnte (all these are cancelled) - MACHEN,
means, we should do.... we should have done... we could... DO It!
Willi
