My question is why the hell we have IVF in the first place. I understand a very small number of people might not be able to reproduce via injury but if if you cant reproduce maybe your offspring is not needed in the gene pool.
If you really designed the interfaces for DirectX and GL in Windows and are not still under NDA you could take a look at how we have implemented OpenGL.dll and the ICD support in ReactOS and tell us if we right or not.
I am in South Carolina and if you judged me as retarded without meeting me I might do something just to spite you. The last time I checked Michigan was not some great utopia anyway.....
Can Microsoft throw out the Win32 api overnight? No they can only add more functions and features. This is why.NET is so slow to catch on. Most of the world still targets the lowest common platform which is either Win98 or 2k. This is what is giving ReactOS the chance to catch up.
I think that has more to do with the political party the people of DC vote for. Every election result I have seen is 90% for the dems and it has been that way as long as I know. Maybe its time for a change.
I was speaking about third party application developers. Its called mind share. Most of the world already develops for Win32. Do you expect them to give up the tools and knowledge they have to go to another platform? No...Thats why Microsoft will always be king unless a free Windows is a option and this is why they are able to push WinCE on mobile devices.
Do you think apple would be interested at all in a port of ReactOS to PPC? I have been trying to make contact inside of apple for quite a while with no luck.
Hehe...yeah we still dream. The project is really coming along though. Apps like Quake and OpenOffice for Windows are running with Office and friends not far away. Networking is starting to work and quite a few third party drivers are coming along. Right now I am working to gain more developers for ReactOS by working with the Wine project and by helping on fun ports like ReactOS on the xbox. Microsofts biggest problem is its own install base. They cant drop Win32 overnight so if we can get ReactOS ready quick enough then the rest of the world will start using it rather than the next thing from Microsoft.
we are trying to work around that problem by working with projects such as mozilla, openssl, etc. Right now if you try to run a application that needs internet under Wine it will download the Mozilla activeX control and just work. I dont think the bundling is a issue for ReactOS as we can ship any required dependancys......
I still have Win2k RC1 for alpha here and it was fine. It was compaq that killed the port. The agreement was that compaq would sell/support the Alpha version and they decided there was no money in it. For all of its problems being able to port NT is not one of them. It has a much cleaner design than most OS's out there. I agree if it was open it would be better but its not so thats why we have created ReactOS.
Dude what the hell are you talking about. NT was designed on a i960 risk chip and later ported to the X86. It also ran on Alpha, MIPS, PPC, IA64 and there are said to be internal sparc builds at Microsoft research. Get a clue, there is very little chip-specific in Windows.
ReactOS works but sometimes has issues on Virtual PC. The best thing to do is just download the latest iso and try it out. Its only about 6 megs. The nice thing about ReactOS is it still has a small footprint but needs quite a bit of work to get stable. The current networking laywer is having issues with http connections although other stuff seems to be coming along such as ftp, etc...
If you would like we can discuss this more over email.
This is the kind of think I think ReactOS could really help with. The fact that WinCE is free but not Free is a real problem to me. There are some big issues with porting ReactOS though as GCC only supports a PE target for a few other CPUs so you would either need to add more support to binutils and gcc or add a elf loader to ReactOS and use ELF on other odd hardware.
The Windows 95 SDK/DDK did not allow you to develop Windos and OS/2 applications according to what I have heard about the non-discloser clause. This was part of what killed OS/2 development.
They do. In fact we develop quite a bit on Windows and then bring the applications over to ReactOS. explorer.exe taskmgr, regedit and quite a few of the drivers were developed on Windows as well as the Win32 libraries were ported from Wine back to Windows.
Yeah I agree with that. Its getting better and more stable everyday. At the recent LinuxWorld expo in Germany we showed ReactOS running a few applications such as Quake and AbiWord for Windows but we still have stablity problems.
We have third party drivers loading, a explorer.exe clone, application support such as OpenOffice for Win32 loading not to mention we have made replacement apps for regedit, taskmgr, and a Windows like install system. Whats slow about ReactOS development?
I have had quite a lot of interest from embedded developers. It seems most of the world knows how to develop Windows applications so a Windows-like OS is very interesting to people that want to build a small scale device or application without the overhead of Windows or dealing with Microsoft licensing.
Yes but the performance review scale is such a bitch its no wonder that all of the current Microsoft employees I know are always freaking. You can end up spending more time trying to make your review look good than doing real work.
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Now you should have enough people from this post that will help build a graphical installer .
My question is why the hell we have IVF in the first place. I understand a very small number of people might not be able to reproduce via injury but if if you cant reproduce maybe your offspring is not needed in the gene pool.
If you really designed the interfaces for DirectX and GL in Windows and are not still under NDA you could take a look at how we have implemented OpenGL.dll and the ICD support in ReactOS and tell us if we right or not.
o s/ lib/opengl32/
http://cvs.reactos.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/react
I am in South Carolina and if you judged me as retarded without meeting me I might do something just to spite you. The last time I checked Michigan was not some great utopia anyway.....
Can Microsoft throw out the Win32 api overnight? No they can only add more functions and features. This is why .NET is so slow to catch on. Most of the world still targets the lowest common platform which is either Win98 or 2k. This is what is giving ReactOS the chance to catch up.
Its ok they fsck up every story I submit as well.
Reading over the comments I think I am the only person who saw the movie.
I think that has more to do with the political party the people of DC vote for. Every election result I have seen is 90% for the dems and it has been that way as long as I know. Maybe its time for a change.
I was speaking about third party application developers. Its called mind share. Most of the world already develops for Win32. Do you expect them to give up the tools and knowledge they have to go to another platform? No...Thats why Microsoft will always be king unless a free Windows is a option and this is why they are able to push WinCE on mobile devices.
As it seems the world wants to run a Windows like OS on mobile chips. If they want a Win32 like OS then we should give them a free one.
Do you think apple would be interested at all in a port of ReactOS to PPC? I have been trying to make contact inside of apple for quite a while with no luck.
Hehe...yeah we still dream. The project is really coming along though. Apps like Quake and OpenOffice for Windows are running with Office and friends not far away. Networking is starting to work and quite a few third party drivers are coming along. Right now I am working to gain more developers for ReactOS by working with the Wine project and by helping on fun ports like ReactOS on the xbox. Microsofts biggest problem is its own install base. They cant drop Win32 overnight so if we can get ReactOS ready quick enough then the rest of the world will start using it rather than the next thing from Microsoft.
we are trying to work around that problem by working with projects such as mozilla, openssl, etc. Right now if you try to run a application that needs internet under Wine it will download the Mozilla activeX control and just work. I dont think the bundling is a issue for ReactOS as we can ship any required dependancys......
Sorry I was rude in the parent post btw.
I still have Win2k RC1 for alpha here and it was fine. It was compaq that killed the port. The agreement was that compaq would sell/support the Alpha version and they decided there was no money in it. For all of its problems being able to port NT is not one of them. It has a much cleaner design than most OS's out there. I agree if it was open it would be better but its not so thats why we have created ReactOS.
Dude what the hell are you talking about. NT was designed on a i960 risk chip and later ported to the X86. It also ran on Alpha, MIPS, PPC, IA64 and there are said to be internal sparc builds at Microsoft research. Get a clue, there is very little chip-specific in Windows.
ReactOS works but sometimes has issues on Virtual PC. The best thing to do is just download the latest iso and try it out. Its only about 6 megs. The nice thing about ReactOS is it still has a small footprint but needs quite a bit of work to get stable. The current networking laywer is having issues with http connections although other stuff seems to be coming along such as ftp, etc...
If you would like we can discuss this more over email.
This is the kind of think I think ReactOS could really help with. The fact that WinCE is free but not Free is a real problem to me. There are some big issues with porting ReactOS though as GCC only supports a PE target for a few other CPUs so you would either need to add more support to binutils and gcc or add a elf loader to ReactOS and use ELF on other odd hardware.
The Windows 95 SDK/DDK did not allow you to develop Windos and OS/2 applications according to what I have heard about the non-discloser clause. This was part of what killed OS/2 development.
They do. In fact we develop quite a bit on Windows and then bring the applications over to ReactOS. explorer.exe taskmgr, regedit and quite a few of the drivers were developed on Windows as well as the Win32 libraries were ported from Wine back to Windows.
Not yet. Networking will be done at the end of the year and then I will. I use ReactOS quite a bit now but most of my time is still spent in Linux.
Yeah I agree with that. Its getting better and more stable everyday. At the recent LinuxWorld expo in Germany we showed ReactOS running a few applications such as Quake and AbiWord for Windows but we still have stablity problems.
Slow???
We have third party drivers loading, a explorer.exe clone, application support such as OpenOffice for Win32 loading not to mention we have made replacement apps for regedit, taskmgr, and a Windows like install system. Whats slow about ReactOS development?
I have had quite a lot of interest from embedded developers. It seems most of the world knows how to develop Windows applications so a Windows-like OS is very interesting to people that want to build a small scale device or application without the overhead of Windows or dealing with Microsoft licensing.
I have already covered it here.
http://www.winehq.com/?interview=14
Yes but the performance review scale is such a bitch its no wonder that all of the current Microsoft employees I know are always freaking. You can end up spending more time trying to make your review look good than doing real work.