Re: [ros-general] Interest in ReactOS

[Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood]

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(a)gse.nl>
To: <ros-general(a)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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