[ros-dev] Newbie to ReactOS

[Lonnie Cumberland]

Greetings All,

I am new to ReactOS but have much experience with with Windows, Linux,
etc... as well as programming mainly in C/C++.

Recently, I have decided to looking into ReactOS from a learning
perspective after which, once the learning curve has been completed, I may
try to get involved with some of the development efforts as well as work on
some additional projects.

>  From what I have seen, ReactOS has come a very long
> ways in its development 
and is really turning into a special OS to be recognized.

I would like to review some of the documentation on the Wiki but had a
question regarding an experiment that I wanted to investigate with ReactOS.

The question that I wanted to answer is this.

What is the absolute minimum size, as relates to booting and OS files that
are needed by ReactOS to run, for example, the notepad.exe program?

To caveat this, it would include leaving out all of the OS tools, Explorer,
Desktop, and absolutely everything that is not clearly needed to run the
notepad.exe application.

Basically, I would like ReactOS to boot and go directly into the notepad
application.  The real point here is to investigate what "absolute" minimum
files are needed to run a simple application.

Sounds a bit crazy, but that is the question that I would like to answer.

Any ideas or information related to this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks and have a great day,
Lonnie