sremick
FreeBSD on the desktop
join:2001-11-11
Bristol, VT
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Re: FreeBSD is not Windows
said by TheAuthor :
Nit-picking, I know - but the "alt" of the FreeBSD logo is still set to "Linux"... Ha, already ahead of you. I caught that myself last night and fixed it.
I also got the page to validate XHTML 1.1 so hopefully we're good for a while. 
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z9_87
Ill - Ini
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join:2001-09-23
Urbana, IL
clubs:
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hmm, first thing I thought of when I started reading it is has anyone ever tried making a open source version of windows from scratch, or reverse engineering it or something like that. A full blown free windows that runs windows apps like windows does. And I don't me like lindows. Now that would be crazy, especially if M$ didn't sue the crap out of the creator.
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rexbinary
Mod King
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join:2005-01-26
Plano, TX | I don't think anyone would really want to see the source code from Windows, unless you like spaghetti.  |
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z9_87
Ill - Ini
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join:2001-09-23
Urbana, IL
clubs: | yeah its just something that crossed my mind for some reason. Just a "hm, wonder if that's been tried?"
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toadlife
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join:2004-05-03
Lemoore, CA
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said by z9_87  :hmm, first thing I thought of when I started reading it is has anyone ever tried making a open source version of windows from scratch, or reverse engineering it or something like that. A full blown free windows that runs windows apps like windows does. And I don't me like lindows. Now that would be crazy, especially if M$ didn't sue the crap out of the creator. ReactOS
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TheAuthor
@novartis.com
| I tried to put ReactOS on my desktop PC. Sadly, it wouldn't install 
Mind you, it worked perfectly via Qemu. They've still got some work to do, but it's very promising for an alpha.. |
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Crypto
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join:2001-01-07
Saint Charles, MO
| No offense, but if I gave an article like that to anyone, I'd expect to be punched in the mouth.
It's several thousands words to the extent of "thats not a bug, it's a feature".
I stopped reading it when I got to the interface section, and realized it was one big rationalization.
Sorry, Not impressed. You do list the problems, but you dont accept any of them as such. It reads like a snow job. If you're preaching to the choir it's great, but I think you'd alienate end-users with it.
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z9_87
Ill - Ini
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join:2001-09-23
Urbana, IL
clubs: | reply to toadlife
wow, I may have to check that out, I don't even have an xp copy on my computer any more, but I'd like to see what reactos is like, maybe they have a livecd.
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reub2000
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join:2001-12-28
Evanston, IL
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said by TheAuthor :I tried to put ReactOS on my desktop PC. Sadly, it wouldn't install Mind you, it worked perfectly via Qemu. They've still got some work to do, but it's very promising for an alpha.. A quick "svn log" shows that no significant changes have been made to usetup.c in months.
Also if your using the 0.2.9 version keep in mind that it was released a while ago. Try compiling the 0.3 branch from the subversion repository. |
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