[ros-dev] Thanks. ReactOS helped me develop and debug Windows drivers.

[David Hinz]

Drew Scott Daniels schrieb:
> Hi,

first of all, I'm no developer of ReactOS, but I follow this project 
since one and a half year, so I think most of my answers are correct.
If a dev finds a mistake, please correct it, but my answer is intended 
to give you more time to develop ReactOS instead of answering mails ;-)

> I'd like to sell companies on using ReactOS, but there seems to be a
> real anti production use message widely conveyed. I feel ReactOS is far
> more stable than is given credit. That said, it would be nice if even
> just some basic core part of ReactOS was stabilised (not even at a
> Desktop user level). By "stabilised", I mean if people could test and
> testify certain kinds of qualified stability (e.g. Version q ran x days,
> but it was only doing y and had z hardware).

As Alex is currently doing a major kernel rewrite, I think something 
like this should wait, until he's finished that. IIRC his changes will 
make the ReactOS kernel far more compatible to existing drivers than the 
current kernel is and will make ReactOS more stable on real hardware.

> I'd love to use ReactOS to replace simple Windows XP Embedded images 
> (with many drivers and features stripped out).

After the kernel changes, ReactOS could be ready for that, maybe the 
TCP/IP stack could use some love, but in a non-networking environment 
and without a GUI or just a simple shell instead of explorer, ReactOS 
could definitely be ready for embedded use by then, and that's also 
where I see ReactOS first used in production environments.


Greets,

David Hinz