29 Aug
2005
29 Aug
'05
1:51 p.m.
Lack of developers being able to work on ROS full time is pretty much
the main cause. These ideas are great, and one day I would hope to have
them developed. But we lack man power to do such things. I am a full
time student and work 20 hours a week for my university. I know most
others also have very busy lives. The best part about open source is
that anyone can work on it. So if you have the motivation that you
expect us to have please feel free to start develpoment on any of these
ideas and let us know how far along you get. Thanks!
Brandon
Rick Langschultz wrote:
Since I heard of reactos, i have always considered it
one day
replacing my Windows 2000 and XP boxes. Because ReactOS was going to
be an open-source alternative to the Windows NT API I felt that it
had and has serious potential to hinder or greatly replace Microsoft
Windows. I have suggested several ideas both through IRC (freenode)
and email messages how the computing world does things. I understand
that ReactOS is still in pre-production, and planning for the next
release is greatly important to the community development and testing
of the operating system, *however I fail to grasp the concept behind
the hindrance of ideas being passed the the development community*.
Some development plans I have talked about were:
1 - A 64 bit journaling file system with a SQL-like back-end.
Lookout WinFS; there that plan went down the drain.
2 - Implementing an instant messenger server for developers and
users to talk on, realtime, without IRC.
Maybe not quite MSN Messenger, but why not? iChat even uses
.mac.
3 - Implementing an OpenLDAP back-end to the website.
Active Directory has nothing on you... Plan knocked out again.
i would rather stick with something close minded like closed source
software than having no ideas be recognized at all.
I only suggest things like this because Microsoft will always be
releasing newer software that will leave reactos in the dust if they
not heed the advice of all, not just me, their developers, testers,
and users.
Why not; right? why envision something and it fail to be realized,
waste of time if i ever knew it...
Rick Langschultz
rlangschultz(a)cox.net (Home)
rlangschultz(a)ellemaespa.com (Work)
rlangschultz(a)email.uophx.edu (School)
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