The main reason for this, IMO, is because the GUI has been improved. First impressions count, and screenshots of console apps really don't excite that many people - regardless of if it's running a Windows-compatible kernel or not.
Several of my friends turned their nose up at ReactOS months ago because they just saw it as being basic and maybe even "DOS-like". But since they saw the 0.2 screenshots, they're impressed and have become interested in it.
There have been the occasional "why?" questions asked by people I've mentioned ReactOS to, but those people are the kind that pay thru the nose for Microsoft software and who praise and worship Mr. Gates... Or who eat, sleep and breathe Linux...
In any case, ReactOS being so popular just goes to show that all the work that has been put into it is worth it. True, the beginnings have been quite slow and in some cases unstable, but with every code commit ReactOS gets better.
Hopefully everything will continue to go smoothly and in the next few years we'll have a 1.0 release ;)
I'd like to contribute some code again sometime soon, so I might start working on some winmm related stuff later this evening.
-Andrew
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ge van Geldorp" ge@gse.nl To: ros-general@reactos.com Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 5:56 PM Subject: [ros-general] Interest in ReactOS
It seems the release of 0.2 generated a lot of interest. Most of the reactions are pretty predictable, either "Why???" or "Wow!!!" with the "Wow" ones being in the majority I think.
The website served 1.8 million requests the last 24 hours. At times it was overloaded, but it seems we have found a set of parameters which works pretty well now.
Gé van Geldorp.
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