[ros-dev] Installer

[Jonathan Andrews]

Hello to the group.... my first post....

I noticed some talk about the Reactos installer following the windows
form. As a long time NT admin who moved into product development on
Linux I would just like to point out how mediocre the windows installer
is.

With a bootable linux ISO you get a full network stack, functional USB
support, detected UDMA IDE drivers, Vesfa FB X11 etc etc etc... with the
windows installer you get a kernel, a few utils and a pretty inflexable
installer. 

Would it not make more sense to write an installer thats based on a
bootable Linux image - if nothing else the use of networking offers a
host of possibilities (diskless installs, updates from the internet
during the install phase and so on).

Is the aim to clone windows, or to produce an operating system that is
API compatible with win32 ? They are very different aims with very
different requirements!

Jon