Windows N...what? That sounds like a fun project; reverse-engineering and essentially re-inventing an existing although wholly-broken OS architecture. Whoohoo... How many anti-virus/spyware/malware/whatever vendors support that flavor?
I find you get what you focus on; they want to focus on a broken system by modeling a replacement after that...well guess what, nearly 15 years later and they're still stuck with alpha quality code that still lacks both 64-bit and NTFS support (even Linux has those!). Maybe the ReactOS developer(s?) should shift gears, considering Apple now surpasses M$ in market capitalization. Seriously - if they're so stuck on their glorious code, why not leave them to their toys - would you really want that mindset contributing to other projects anyway? As for being banned from open source projects - I typically only see that when projects are rapidly losing developers & other forms of public support, and the banned individual disagrees with the remaining developers. Take, for example, SQL-Ledger; a project wholly-controlled by a single developer and whom bans anyone from "his" GPLed project that does not fall in line behind him. On the flip-side, a very strong "alternative" SQL-Ledger community has been evolving for years - so-much that the original developer doesn't even factor into the picture anymore. If ReactOS is kicking people out, then where's their alternative community? Maybe they're just looking for a corner to die in? Pretty website, I wonder who their webmaster is. Shouldn't this be on PLUG-TALK? Oh yea, sent from a Mac, through a datacenter chock-full of highly-reliaable Linux systems, from a snarky guy who started when Netware 3.11 & DOS 6.22 were The Next Big Things(tm). The point; sure, Windows is kind of important in some environments, but it's nothing near the Big Deal it used to be - count the number of PCs vs Macs during your next coffee shop run, or start asking random people what their home computer runs (my money its predominately OSX, or a vendor-supplied Linux distro). - Gregg Solid IT Support & Hosting Since 1995: www.tocici.com Small Parts Design & Machining: www.berkholtz.net On Jun 14, 2010, at 12:44 AM, Michael C. Robinson wrote: > I found an interview via WineHQ with a fellow who worked on ReactOS back > in 2004. No doubt, he really thought that 6 months would see ReactOS in > much better shape than it is in even today. The ReactOS community of > today seems like a very angry community that is experiencing an ever > lengthening timeline for getting something stable/quasi stable put > together. > > Perhaps it would be best to fix whatever problems remain in Linux and > really push Linux instead. For instance, does everyone need X Windows? > I look at the philosophy behind Syllable and wonder if a simpler GUI > on top of Linux would be a more reasonable idea? > > ReactOS, started in 1996, is still in alpha stage. I think 0.3.11 was > released 5-6 months ago. The site is totally down right now according > to openDNS. Sometimes, the site seems to go down when a new release is > pending. ReactOS needs to be in beta, but who knows how far off that > is. > > When is a project, even an OSS project, not worth it? Linux came > together in what, four years time? ReactOS is taking much longer > to come together. With a third of all software projects being > completed, maybe the ReactOS community should accept that their > project isn't one of those and either move on or hand the project > over to someone else. > > Linux is very mature, although I have problems with my AGP HD 3450 > Radeon shutting off without warning and my system is oddly quite slow. > I'm trying to play Runes of Avalon Book I which supposedly requires a > 1.6 Ghz processor on a 3.06 Ghz P4 1.5 gigabytes of ram Fedora 12 system > and it is still too slow. I think it makes more sense to put pressure > on AMD and the makers of NVIDIA video cards to help the open source > community write better drivers for Linux than it does to try and clone > Windows NT. Especially now with Linux being taken more seriously by > software producers, fixing Linux should be taken more seriously as well. > > Anyways, how common is it for someone to be banned from communicating > with the people working on an open source project? Is ReactOS a dying > project at this point or is there a realistic possibility of someone > else taking on the project and doing something great with it? > > Maybe Linux should be the server and something else should be the > desktop system, but is the Windows NT environment really all that > great a choice for desktops? > > Maybe if the ReactOS community didn't make the code available free of > charge to the public, the GPL doesn't require this, programmers could > be hired to work full time. > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
