How about porting wineserver to Windows via Mingw+MSYS or fix the Cygwin port. It still would not run as dll seperation of kernel32/ntdll needs to be done but I have been wanting to see this for a while and for Cygwin its not to much work. 99% of it compiles it just needs Get/SetThreadContext imeplemented. Its not a huge amount of work.
Even at that if I had the time, know-how, was in school and could get credit for working on a open source project I would not work on WINE but port User Mode Linux to Windows. The Line project already has a elf loader that will let you run Linux apps in Cygwin so its adapting that UML and doing a port for a Mingw target. I just think it would be really nice to be able to run Linux on top of a NT kernel so if ReactOS is ever ready you guys could have Linux on top of a kernel running NT/2K drivers. Thanks Steven --- Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > A prof. in a locale university is doing a summer course about open > source development. I gave them a short power point lecture (on Linux > :-), and showed them IE running, and managed to hook one vulenteer to do > his assignment in Wine. > > I have managed to interest him in some of open issues that are close to > my heart (i.e. - BiDi related issues). However, this is far from final. > I'm sure he would love to hear about other interesting areas, but some > criteria must be kept. > > It must be a task that is moreorless self contained (he is supposed to > be graded for it at the end), and it must be something known to be > possible in a reasonable amount of hours (i.e - it can't be > "implementing MSI"). Then again, it can't be something too trivial (i.e. > - not "localize notepad"). > > Currently at hand are adding encoding selection to the font dlg (and > making it ANSI call Unicode in the process), and adding BiDi to the edit > control. If you feel you have something else that may be of interest to > him, feel free to try and grab him away :-) > > Shachar > P.S. > No, I have not dropped of the face of the planet, and I still read this > list. Just too busy to be doing anything useful (except hiring other > working hands, which may count for something, I guess). I'll be back, > though. > > -- > Shachar Shemesh > Open Source integration consultant > Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/ > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
