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

[Stephen Hodges]

This all sounds like asking santa for too much. It's quite an absurd request when the ReactOS part barely works as it is. If you are going to bring linux into this, try working on a way to just automatically convert Linux drivers to Windows, and bring in any helper features that may be useful. That's a start.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Andrew Greenwood<mailto:lists at silverblade.co.uk> 
  To: ReactOS Kernel List<mailto:ros-kernel at reactos.com> 
  Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 4:01 PM
  Subject: Re: [ros-kernel] Re: ReactOS article to be published in Linux Magazine


  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<mailto:steven_ed4153 at yahoo.com>>
  To: "ReactOS Kernel List" <ros-kernel at reactos.com<mailto: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<mailto: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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