[ros-dev] Some thoughts

[theUser BL]

As a ReactOS-User I thoght sometimes, which is better: ReactOS or Linux with WINE.

WINE is much more mature and can also run Windows 3.11 programs.
But ReactOS - on the other side - is more Windows-like. It is a complete Operating System
like Windows. And the applications for ReactOS can also be running in binary form on
Windows and are not Linux-/Unix-native applications which are additional compiled against
a winelib.dll.

On the ReactOS-side stand the everyone known text
"ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both applications and
device drivers meant for NT and XP operating systems, by using a similar architecture and
providing a complete and equivalent public interface."

That is one of the differences to WINE: Being also driver-compatibe to XP.
But thats also a point, where I ask myself, how much sense this make.
Windows NT could run a lot of Windows 95/98 programs. Windows XP could run most Windows
NT, Windows 9x and Windows 3.x programs. Windows Vista runs not all but some of the
Windows XP and Windows NT programs.
But on the driver side, Windows XP could only some Windows NT driver (like
printer-driver).
As I read for some time, for Windows Vista existing lesser driver then for Linux. So, it
seems not, that Vista could use some of the plenty of Windows XP driver.
Also Vista existing as 32bit and 64bit. And the 64bit system can not use 32bit driver.
Follower of Vista (for example Windows 7) will only be existing as 64bit system.

So, you want to be driver-compatibe to Windows. But Windows will itself not be
drivercompatibe to older or newer versions.

I have read anywhere in the Internet, that  it is planned, that in newer Windows-versions
only driver can be used and installed, which are trustable. And only Microsoft dicide,
which drivers are trustable and which not. And driver-creator have ro pay on Microsoft
that they make the drivers authorized/trustable.

This makes it also more senseless to be driver-compatibe to Windows.


But ReactOS have the advantage, that it looks and feels in all areas like Windows. And you
can run Windows-programs on it. That is really an advantage of ReactOS.

Possible ReactOS would be anytime cooperate with DeviceVM ( the company behind SplashTop
http://www.splashtop.com/index.php ) . Because it is possible, that there are people who
would prefer an Windows/ReactOS system which starts fast on an RAM instead of an
Linux-System.


In the new Newsletter (#41)  of ReactOS stands, that Steven Edwards comes back to interact
again between ReactOS and WINE.
Thats a very good news. Hopefully all the WINE-developers see ReactOS in some time as
legal and use again ReactOS-code for WINE, so that ReactOS and WINE could again more
cooperate.
There are still some developer (like GvG and others) who have left ReactOS and thought,
that ReactOS isn't legal in USA-laws. I still think, that it is a big problem, that
there are some ex-developer of ReactOS and some WINE-developer, who beliefs, that ReactOS
is illegal. A more intensive dialog with this people is needed I think.


Greatings
theuserbl

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