[ros-kernel] ReactOS

[Rick Langschultz]

Thank you very much for the positive email. I appreciate it, I knew that
my idea would receive negative criticism but I didn't know how much,
turns out to be about 4 emails. LOL, Yes I would love the source to that
OpenWindows. The name would have to be changed to suite my naming
scheme, but I think that would be ok, as long as it is documented in the
source and what-not. Thank you for the mail, talk to you later.

-----Original Message-----
From: ros-kernel-bounces at reactos.com
[mailto:ros-kernel-bounces at reactos.com] On Behalf Of Wesley Parish
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 8:34 PM
To: ReactOS Kernel List
Subject: Re: [ros-kernel] ReactOS

There was a project some time ago to do exactly this, a Win9x F/LOSS
clone
called "OpenWindows" and its site is still floating around on
Sourceforge,
though it is officially dead.  I've got the source code for it, though I
never
got around to building them.

I'm loathe to pour cold water on your enthusiasm, but ReactOS succeeded
whereas
OpenWindows didn't.  If you're intent on doing it, I can send you the
OpenWindows source code and you can take it from there.

Wesley Parish

Quoting Rick Langschultz <rlangschultz at cox.net>:

> Hey all,
> 
> 
> Just wanted to say that ReactOS has evolved from what it was a few
> months ago. Being that ReactOS is being built to run windows nt
> programs
> I figured that I would start a project to run only windows 95, 98,
98se
> programs. Tell me what you think and if you think that this would be a
> good idea. I know it will take a while, but I am willing to spend the
> time. I figure that I will start with sources from freedos 32, wine,
> binutils, some common programs, and a small X Windowing system to
> handle
> the graphics services. Well tell me what you all think. Suggestions
are
> welcome and please tell me about any problems that I may face.
>  



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