"NT-Compatible".
I can make a bootable Windows XP Professional Live CD, with all the functionality you just described, bar X11.
It all boils down into how much effort you take to make it.
On 12/4/05, Jonathan Andrews jon@jonshouse.co.uk wrote:
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
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