[ros-dev] New Webserver System

[Andrew Murphy]

Boots but doesnt work because USB doesnt work yet, cant control it :)

On 01/09/05, Robert Köpferl <rob at koepferl.de> wrote:
> 
> sounds sexy
> But is this realizable?
> 
> Emanuele Aliberti wrote:
> > Richard Campbell wrote:
> >
> >> Well, i don't know about other devs around here, but i don't WANT
> >> ReactOS to become another XP.
> >>
> >> Windows XP typically consumes over a GB of space.
> >>
> >> Remember NT4? It took between 30 and 100 mb of space depending on
> >> features. Windows 95? About 15 MB. If users want additional apps,
> >> they can either download them, or use a custom ROS distro that will
> >> include such things. The source tree is cluttered enough as it is.
> >> ReactOS should only include the basic software that earlier versions
> >> shipped with...a notepad clone, possibly a wordpad clone, basic net
> >> utils, etc.
> >
> >
> > Also the Win32 subsystem is not technically necessary. All Win32 pieces
> > could be moved off the main reactos tree and included as optional
> > linking them from modules. I proposed it years ago. It is not an easy
> > task, though, because setup should know that, if the user asks for no
> > personalty at all, it should install none (now win32 is by default in).
> > Personalities (win, posix, os2, vms, ...) should come on the cd-rom as
> > separate cab files and post install procedures add registry entries,
> > create directoryes etc. A no-personality ReactOS will be a really light
> > OS, perfect for custom text/graphics boxes (you just need writing an
> > entry in the registry for the session manager to start your native
> > program, which will be the only user program in the box (excluding the
> > sm itself).
> >
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