27 Oct
2010
27 Oct
'10
5:14 p.m.
Op 23-10-2010 11:06, Aleksey Bragin schreef:
Even with this in mind ReactOS isn't well suited for many real
applications, so we just looked at a few to see if it would be a way
to go, you could perhaps suggest some more, and we would welcome that,
we only have to ensure there isn't too much work to actually come to
the finish line. Here we present some ideas and what needs to get in
place to actually make it work.
Webserver
- Network subsystem (mainly tcpip.sys driver, and some winsock
improvement)
- VNC support (future RDP support)
- Apache/MySQL/PHP support
- XAMPP with toolbox
- WEBMIN
Thin Client (LiveCD or BootCD)
- Re-port our MSTSC.EXE
- Local printing (USB/LPT printer support?)
Please give us your opinion and please also add possible ideas that
you have and think through what needs to get in place to see it come
to pass.
Let's see, right now you've got a basic operating system without much
guidance/documentation on how to get things working a bit.
For example, 0.3.12 release allows you to have a working FireFox
(besides maybe FF 3.6.9's address bar text input issue). Modern youth's
first inclination: pay a visit to YOUTUBE. Problem: Flash won't
download/install, the Adobe DLM Firefox plugin is a mess and searching
for standalone setup program seems impossible at first glance (where I
got stuck). Some documentation on how to get this working would be nice.
Ofcourse once that works you'll have people shouting for sound support,
which is currently work in progress and hopefully a feature of 0.3.13 or
0.4.0.
Another thing is you might be wanting to show ReactOS as a "standalone
business computer running a simple wordprocessor and/or spreadsheet
program". Think latest OpenOffice (LibreOffice?) didn't even start up
after installation.
Install CD could be nice as supporting Syslinux project's "MEMDISK"
ramdisks, either by FreeLDR --> Memdisk --> ReactOS ISO , or Syslinux
--> Memdisk --> ReactOS ISO , to do a fake "boot from cd and run through
installation process". I think it requires the WinVBlock driver which is
opensource.
Last show-off idea I could think of is releasing a 1-time LiveCD with
Ramdisk support integrated (is there a user-configurable ramdisk-driver
anyway?), and ROSBE and 0.3.12 sources, so you boot into that CD and can
edit + compile the 0.3.12 sources to your liking, thus
compiling/modifying files without affecting harddisk. Ofcourse that
integrated build-environment keeps the option to download other ReactOS
sources and edit/compile those instead of the standard-delivered 0.3.12
sources.
I'm not sure how well the Filezilla FTP server and client run at all on
ReactOS, never had much luck with it despite being opensource and portable.
Not application-specific, but actually shutting down in VMware would be
nice rather than getting a pre-ATX feeling :)
Your hosting tasks for forums, buildbot, IRC etc seem like a nice goal,
best of luck with that.