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

Andrew Greenwood lists at silverblade.co.uk
Mon Apr 5 22:01:08 CEST 2004


Well that's all very good news!

If we can support both Windows and Linux drivers and applications, I think
that'll make ReactOS better than both OSes combined.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Edwards" <steven_ed4153 at yahoo.com>
To: "ReactOS Kernel List" <ros-kernel at reactos.com>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [ros-kernel] Re: ReactOS article to be published in Linux
Magazine


> 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
>
>
>
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