[ros-kernel] Re: ReactOS article to be published in Linux Magazine

[Steven Edwards]

Hi Andrew,

--- Andrew Greenwood <lists at silverblade.co.uk> wrote:
> Are you basically suggesting that we should somehow try to make
> ReactOS
> capable of loading Linux drivers and applications, in addition to
> Windows
> ones? If so, that's a great idea IMO. Whether its feasible/possible
> is
> another matter...

Getting Linux apps to work on ReactOS is feasible and possible now. It
should be in our roadmap for ASAP. The way that we have to do this is
by fixing everything that is needed to get CoLinux.sys to load and run
under ReactOS. Once we have this and a X-Server we will have support
for 99% of all Linux source and binary applications.
 
> Once Linux apps and drivers work on ReactOS, it'd then be quite cool
> if you
> could somehow do it the other way - run drivers and apps from
> Windows, on
> Linux. I know some apps run already, but sometimes driver support is
> a
> little lacking. And if it were possible to load Windows drivers on
> Linux, I
> would've done so a long long time ago...

Well thats the idea and I have heard lots of mumbling from the Linux
people with interest in ReactOS. I think we can take this chance to
reach out to them and grow our developer pool.

Thanks
Steven