* KJK::Hyperion noog@libero.it [2004-02-17 00:33:47 +0100]:
Hi folks,
for me it's finally and actually learning Windows. Just giving up and using another system? _how convenient_. And it's not like just for wanting to develop an open source operating system you *must* contribute to Linux - what makes people think that?
Well, I just thought about GNU/Linux since its one of the most used opensource operating systems.
I personally migrated to GNU/Linux some years ago, because its architecture is much better for my tasks than windows - for me windows is too desktop-centric But I also like to run many windows applications on my system, as long as they're not available for GNU/Linux.
I hate Linux, why should I care?
Why exactly do you hate it ?
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Where are the (conceptional) differences ?
you really *don't want* to get in a discussion with *me* about differences between Windows and Linux. I'm pretty much doomed to be always right about the topic, having spent countless hours of my life studying it. Let's put it this way: they are roughly *equivalent*, but in no way *interchangeable*
For me the differences are important since I'd like to use windows applications on other platforms like GNU/Linux or BSD.
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.
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So what are the advantages of another own kernel against a subsystem in another host operating system ?
it makes us 63.2% cooler
ah, no rational reason, just for fun.
no, I'm just saying it to confuse you
*lol*
cu