On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Michael C. Robinson <plu...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > ReactOS is neither a stable nor potentially even a promising project > anymore depending on who you talk to. Sadly, I got kicked off of the > forum boards and the IRC channel. I haven't been back since. > > I don't like when people say, "ReactOS is cloning Windows under the > GPL and this work doesn't need to be done," because the job > isn't getting done. ReactOS could stay in alpha easily for another > 10+ years because there are not enough developers and possibly the > developers that are working on ReactOS don't have all of the needed > skill sets let enough enough time to dedicate to the project.
They have got a very long way and it's a tremendously impressive project. You do them a grave disservice by criticising & bad-mouthing them thus. I also think it's a pointless, futile & unproductive effort and a colossal waste of work by a lot of smart, dedicated people. > ReactOS isn't going to be a Windows replacement that runs on top of > Freedos. No, and a very good job to. > Suggesting that ReactOS run on top of Freedos on > any of the ReactOS forums or the ReactOS IRC channel will bring down > a lot of criticism upon you and most likely more than you can handle. And they are absolutely right to do so. It is a ridiculous idea. > ReactOS quite honestly is seemingly being pushed by rabid anti theists What the...? What have their religious beliefs got to do with anything? As it happens, I am an evangelistic anti-theist myself, but this is utterly irrelevant to any technical discussion whatsoever. > and there is a strong mob mentality on issues of how to do things. Well, there are a whole bunch of people doing stuff and 10x as many who contribute nothing but want to tell them how to proceed. I can understand how & why they'd get annoyed. > The > GCC verses MSVC debate comes to mind. Well, I reckon they should be using GCC myself, but then, the whole project is instant toast if MS ever notices it anyway. > I went by nute on the ReactOS forums. Look and you can see how dicey > things got. Ahhh, I remember reading some of that. *You* were that trouble-maker, were you? [Laughs] > There is the Linux Unified Kernel project, but how well that will allow > people to run Windows programs on a Linux system directly is yet to be > seen. I bet that LUK has a better chance of working than ReactOS quite > honestly. It has a snowball's chance in a supernova. > Steer clear of the reactos irc channel, there is no moderating and there > is a horrific and horrendous mob mentality. > > I would like a direct replacement for Windows 98SE which supports a lot > of games and other software that is now orphanware. Absurd. You apparently have no conception of the amount of work & code involved, and why on earth would a whole team of volunteers spend years cloning a large, complex, obsolete & dead OS that was already technically irrelevant a decade ago? I'm suggesting cloning something that was 200KB in size which came from a dead company who no longer even have the sources. You're suggesting something that is around TWO THOUSAND TIMES BIGGER and represented 15Y of work to create, from a very large, aggressive, threatening company which is still trading, is selling a derived product under the same name, and which is famed for attacking rivals & putting them out of business. You need professional psychiatric help if you think that's a good idea. > There is hardware > for Windows 9x that doesn't work on NT based versions of Windows. Then use Win9x and stop complaining. > I > realize that this is not a Freedos 1.1 thing or potentially even a > Freedos 3.0 thing. An alternative is to revive Freedos 32 and develop > a simple GUI for it that will attract open source programmers. Thus completely ignoring and failing to address my reasoned argument why that would be a bad idea. Gooood... -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
