My story is a bit more interesting. Short version: Wikipedia. Long version:
I was looking around for a list of OSes, to see 16-bit ones, 32-bit ones, 8-bit ones, etc. I was more interested in how much you can do with few bits - 8 or 16, for example. I was trying to find out what the latest NT version to run on a 386 is (answer: 3.51, the last one before NT 4). I think I still have that laptop and it still works.
I can't remember the history of Wikipedia links I followed until I got to ReactOS but I think it was because I saw the page for "Microsoft Windows" which contained the "emulation software" category. ReactOS was listed there, so love at first sight.
And then my mind just generated some ideas about how to help but I won't go into further detail :)
2009/7/17 Alex
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Hello All,
I just thought I should mention how I found out about ROS: there was
a torrent on our local tracker with a short title "ReactOS 0.3.9".
And I said to myself - WTF? I never heard about an OS by that name.
And only 30 Mb?
I.e., by pure accident :)
But on the other hand, if ROS weren't functional enough, users
wouldn't put it on the tracker. So there is some merit in improving
the user-land and what Victor talked about.
BTW, I think it would be interesting if other people on this list said
how they first find out about ReactOS.
Saturday, July 18, 2009, 12:12:28 AM, you wrote:
> I'm agree with the "Attracting developers" instead "Users"
> idea,but..until now this approach(if we are following any)didnt
> work.In the last year just їtwo?,їthree? developers have come, and
> some has gone or are in IDLE mode. Why isnt this approach working?
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