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

James Tabor jimtabor at adsl-64-217-116-74.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net
Mon Apr 5 20:21:25 CEST 2004


Hi,
Andrew Greenwood 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...
> 
Wow, I can see that happen very soon! We can use a block device template to
load and call the linux block driver. The same for network and char devices.
Little work, could be done!

> 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...
> 
Anything can be possible, if you have the time to write code go for it,
James


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