Re: [ros-dev] On the growth of the reactos project

[Maya Posch]

For me I discovered ReactOS many years ago during its CLI-only days 
during my search for alternative OSs. I essentially searched for new OSs 
to try and follow :)

What I think may help the exposure of ReactOS is to work on a really 
polished release every so many months, something which can act like a 
flyer, a pretty form of advertising people will want to use casually. In 
my opinion the current VM images are still far too hard to use, let 
alone advertised very clearly on the site. If it takes more than 5 
minutes to find, download and run the demo, most people will have lost 
interest. I never tried many of those alternative OSs because I couldn't 
be bothered to set up a VM for every single one of them.

Users are lazy and like shiny things. I think we can give it to them :)


Maya


Alex wrote:
>   Hello All,
>  
>  I just thought I should mention how I found out about ROS: there was
>  a torrent on our local tracker with a short title "ReactOS 0.3.9".
>  
>  And I said to myself - WTF? I never heard about an OS by that name.
>  And only 30 Mb?
>  
>  I.e., by pure accident :)
>  
>  But on the other hand, if ROS weren't functional enough, users
>  wouldn't put it on the tracker. So there is some merit in improving
>  the user-land and what Victor talked about.
>  
>  
>  BTW, I think it would be interesting if other people on this list said
>  how they first find out about ReactOS.
>  
>  
>  Saturday, July 18, 2009, 12:12:28 AM, you wrote:
>  
> >   I'm agree with the "Attracting
> > developers" instead "Users"
> >  idea,but..until now this approach(if we are following any)didnt
> >  work.In the last year just їtwo?,їthree? developers have come, and
> >  some has gone or are in IDLE mode. Why isnt this approach working? 
>