I ran ReactOS in VMWare all day at work yesterday (9 hours), and I used it for all my web related stuff. I didn't encounter a single problem all day. I was pleasantly surprised.
I'm going to do this more often now. It's slowly getting into the realms of being usable for simple every day tasks. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Aleksey Bragin Sent: 08 April 2009 22:56 To: ReactOS Development List Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Brainstorming about testing team, roadmap and ReactOS usability It's not that bad now, actually that's why I say about starting all this compatibility/whatever thing. We know almost all "strange" crashes, all of them are bugzilled. Idle time is great too - e.g. tower usually runs ReactOS for at least a day in a virtual machine. Bad things happen when it comes to certain areas. Like networking in your example. Or filesystem (but now it's greatly improved). I fully agree - stability is a must, but to have a plan, we need to see what issues we do have now. And to get them - get test software which runs good and could simulate us a real usage case. On Apr 8, 2009, at 11:24 PM, Timo Kreuzer wrote: > One of the current issues that makes ReactOS completely useless for > real stuff is not that it cannot run app X or game Y or doesn't > support my network adapter. The most annoying thing is it's > instability. > You have no chance to use any of the great features, because most > likely reactos crashes before you are at that point. > Try downloading something that is > 300MB, or installing a bigger > application... good luck :( > It just crashes way too often. We all know our crappy Cc and yes, I > know win32k also crashes from time to time. > And after a crash it's quite likely that things don't work anymore > (for example downloader) and you need to reinstall reactos. If we > could fix that, the system would look much better than it does today. > Before a 0.4, we should start a stability offensive. > It would also improve developing, because the crashes can really be > a pain when it comes to testing something. Excessive testing is > more or less impossible, because of all the crashes. > > Just my 2 cents, > Timo > _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
