Drew Scott Daniels schrieb:
Hi,
first of all, I'm no developer of ReactOS, but I follow this project
since one and a half year, so I think most of my answers are correct.
If a dev finds a mistake, please correct it, but my answer is intended
to give you more time to develop ReactOS instead of answering mails ;-)
I'd like to sell companies on using ReactOS, but
there seems to be a
real anti production use message widely conveyed. I feel ReactOS is far
more stable than is given credit. That said, it would be nice if even
just some basic core part of ReactOS was stabilised (not even at a
Desktop user level). By "stabilised", I mean if people could test and
testify certain kinds of qualified stability (e.g. Version q ran x days,
but it was only doing y and had z hardware).
As Alex is currently doing a major kernel rewrite, I think something
like this should wait, until he's finished that. IIRC his changes will
make the ReactOS kernel far more compatible to existing drivers than the
current kernel is and will make ReactOS more stable on real hardware.
I'd love to use ReactOS to replace simple Windows
XP Embedded images
(with many drivers and features stripped out).
After the kernel changes, ReactOS could be ready for that, maybe the
TCP/IP stack could use some love, but in a non-networking environment
and without a GUI or just a simple shell instead of explorer, ReactOS
could definitely be ready for embedded use by then, and that's also
where I see ReactOS first used in production environments.
Greets,
David Hinz