innovations...

[Jeff Smith]

I was wonderng if/what improvements we are likely to create, like will we try to create our own Networking protocol just for ReactOS, or our own Binary format,  new API's, or other idea I'm not getting right now,  will we add to reactOS  after we have base Win32 compatibility?

[Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood]

We'll no doubt eventually have our own innovations, but I doubt there is much point in "re-inventing the wheel" regarding network protocols - the standard seems to have settled on TCP/IP with the occasional IPX network.

Whatever developments are made to improve ReactOS in some ways not done with Windows by Microsoft, should be easily adaptable to run on Windows (ie, should be available separately so Windows users can run ReactOS apps.) But the main aim of this project is compatibility, so introducing something "proprietary" to ReactOS (or requiring additions to Windows so apps for ReactOS can run on it) is not really a good idea, IMO.

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I was wonderng if/what improvements we are likely to create, like will we try to create our own Networking protocol just for ReactOS, or our own Binary format,  new API's, or other idea I'm not getting right now,  will we add to reactOS  after we have base Win32 compatibility?

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[Martin Fuchs]

> We'll no doubt eventually have our own innovations, but I doubt there is
> much point in "re-inventing the wheel" regarding network protocols - the
> standard seems to have settled on TCP/IP with the occasional IPX network.

I remember those times, where NETBIOS and IPX have been used for WFW 3.1.
It was a nightmare to get two LANs connected - I prefer using the one and only
TCP/IP protocol (may it be version 4 or the better 6).
> Whatever developments are made to improve ReactOS in some ways not done with
> Windows by Microsoft, should be easily adaptable to run on Windows (ie,
> should be available separately so Windows users can run ReactOS apps.) But
> the main aim of this project is compatibility, so introducing something
> "proprietary" to ReactOS (or requiring additions to Windows so apps for
> ReactOS can run on it) is not really a good idea, IMO.

I don't think, it's enough just to duplicate anything what's already existing in
MS Windows. Why should one switch to a new operating system with the same
features like the old one? (appart from now being able to use free software)

It's easy to include new functionality regarding the user interface without
breaking compatibility. We can invent any new programs and include them into
the distribution or extend existing things with new functionality.

I for my part will extend Explorer to include some usefull extensions.

Regards,

Martin

[Mark IJbema]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:40:45PM +0100, Martin Fuchs wrote:
> I don't think, it's enough just to duplicate anything what's already existing in
> MS Windows. Why should one switch to a new operating system with the same
> features like the old one? (appart from now being able to use free software)
>
> It's easy to include new functionality regarding the user interface without
> breaking compatibility. We can invent any new programs and include them into
> the distribution or extend existing things with new functionality.

I agree, and i think we should have some innovative new features,
however, since they should be innovative, it's not easy to come up with
ones :) Also, i don't think it's something for now, it's more something
to implement later.

Mark