Enrico Weigelt wrote:
And why implement _Windows_ and not a good system which allows running old windows applications ?
ReactOS *is* meant as "a good system which allows running old windows applications"
Perhaps it was a misunderstanding. I meant a "good operating system" which can be used for many tasks, not just running windows applications. So this would end up in a windows subsystem.
Well, let me ask the question in a diffrent way:
What are the existing kernels/operating systems are missing that you require a completely new kernel. Writing a good operating system from scratch is a very huge job - i.e. linux has taken many years to come to the point where it is.
You can also see this in a different way: We are working together with the Wine project. This project is already quite old and it's still in it's alpha phase, so developments aren't really going hard... This project has a good potential of becoming a very fast developing project since there are a lot of windows developers outthere. Now the situation is that the ReactOS project hugely consumes of the knowledge of the Wine project, but in a year or so the situation could have changed in the other way around! Then it is time to finally build a _good_ windows subsystem for linux! From my point of view the ReactOS project is no more then a step between the situation now and having a good Windows subsystem in Linux. Hope that that cleared something.
Emil