Re: [ros-general] OK, Time for a few words..

[TwoTailedFox]

Kevin, if you're looking to slim down Windows 2000 (Or XP/2003, for
that matter), check out nLite: http://www.nliteos.com

On 10/20/05, Kevin Lawton <kepla(a)btinternet.com> wrote:
>   I had not heard of this 'LitePC' thing before
> - it sounds almost too good to be true.
>  Thanks for the info - I will be giving it a try to trim my Win 2000 installations down to
> a more sensible size.
>  Been down the Linux road too but, when you consider the current bulkiness of the more
> 'useful' Linux distros and the difficulties of using it with modern toys like
> phones or cameras, I find I have to keep Windows hanging around - at least until ReactOS
> is 'all present and correct'. FreeBSD is an interesting option for Unix-like-ness
> on a PC, with Cygwin and Win4Lin having their place too.
>  Dunno about ros-insane, maybe it should be ros-inspired.
>  Plenty of new things to play with now.  :-)
>  Kevin.
>
> >   -----Original Message-----
> >  From: ros-general-bounces(a)reactos.org
> >  [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of
> >  jwalsh(a)bigpond.net.au
> >  Sent: 20 October 2005 05:08
> >  To: ReactOS General List
> >  Cc: Robert Köpferl
> >  Subject: Re: [ros-general] OK, Time for a few words..
> >
> >
> >
> >  If I may add my 2 cents worth.
> >  I too have a spot in my heart for Linux Gui's, both KDE and Gnome.
> >  However the overheads are too high. So I have 3 three Thinkspads
> >  on the net.
> >  and a comfortable swivel chair.
> >  IMHO Linux is toooo fat and slow and badly designed, before I get
> >  flamed it is only MHO.
> >  So I have tried to compromise (on Particulars, not on Principles).
> >  This was my strategy (for what it is worth):
> >  Please remember it is only MHO, and not set in concrete.
> >   I chose the first Linux distro off the block i.e. Slackware
> >  because it stuck to basic principles. Yes as simple as that. The
> >  old 1440 KB floppy disk (about the size of my limited imagination).
> >  I chose a basic Windows32 platform i.e. 9x
> >  Then I worked on the tiny Linux's (Monkey Linux, and pocket Linux)
> >  Until I discovered Pat Villani's  :
> >      Linux for Windows 9X
> >         Home page: http://www.monmouth.com/user_pages/patv/
> >         Download:
> >  ftp://opensourcedepot.com/pub/linux/WinLin9X/v0.2/setup.exe
> >        Author: Pat Villani (http://www.monmouth.com/user_pages/patv)
> >        Mailing list: lin4win(a)opensourcedepot.com
> >   It was great, it sat neatly in 18 MB.
> >  Then I asked myself, "what the heck am I doing with nearly half a
> >  gig of Windows98se?"
> >  Not wanting to bring Microsoft down on my financially poor head:
> >  I downloaded Australian product called 98Lite from LitePC.com
> >  (trial version)
> >  I liked it so much I bought the real  thing.
> >   It gave me the opportunity to unbolt everything which Microsoft
> >  told the courts was not possible to do.
> >   There she was, stripped from nearly half a gig to 50mb, stark
> >  naked, but looking like Homer Simpson.
> >   The speed increase was fantastic. Now I am going for 30 mb, then
> >  16, then 8, then .......
> >  The full story would take too long to tell, so I will leave it at that.
> >  Suffice to say I have now dumped Linux and gone back to Unix BSD and bash.
> >  That is when met Minsys and it was a good feeling.
> >  I was Bourne again, bash'ed about the head, so to speak.
> >  Oh I forgot there is a need for one extra doorway off ros-general
> >   especially for me.
> >  Mark it ros-insane.
> >
> >  Cheers and rosuccess
> >
> >  Justin
> >
> >  ---- "Robert Köpferl" <rob(a)koepferl.de> wrote:
> > >   Hhmmm, what you tink of is what I call a
> > > GDI-Port+win32 of xfree.
> > >  etc
> > >  Richard Campbell wrote:
> > >  > XFree86 has already been ported to windows, whats the point 
> >  in a ROS port?
> > >   > etc
> > >  > Robert Köpferl wrote:
> > >  > etc
> > >  >> It should be possible to port Xfree86 to ROS (be it win32 or 
> >  posix) as
> > >   >> it has been proted to os2.
> > >  >>etc
> > >  >> TwoTailedFox wrote:
> > >  >> etc
> > >  >>> I've seen quite a few users propose ideas, such as a new GUI, or new
> > >  >>> functionality, only to be told it doesn't fit in with the 
> >  Core
> > Goal of
> > > >  >>
> > > > ReactOS.
> > > > >> etc
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