OK, Time for a few words..

[TwoTailedFox]

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.

ReactOS is all about creating a Win32-compatible Operating System.
Now, later on, when the Kernel is sufficiently developed, we can do
what Linux does, and create "Distributions".

I had a look at the KDE/Ros Thread, and noted that a version of that,
and GNOME may well be available for Windows next year.

If the UI Team chooses to Grow, you can offer, for example mind you, a
Core ReactOS System, with Windows Classic, and one or more
"Distributions", with a different GUI, such as KDE or GNOME.

Same goes for ReactOS in different 'roles'. Offering versions aimed at
Workstations, Servers, or even for Educational/Testing use, would be
feasible down the line.

Just my 0.02c

--
"I had a handle on life, but then it broke"

[James Tabor]

TwoTailedFox wrote:
> 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.

If anyone wants to modify their desktop, go for it! It is your system
and soon Ros will be able to support some of the functionality needed
to run KDE mingw32 or Cygwin-XFree!
> ReactOS is all about creating a Win32-compatible Operating System.
> Now, later on, when the Kernel is sufficiently developed, we can do
> what Linux does, and create "Distributions".

Anyone can create a distribution, this is gnu gpl project, go for it!
> I had a look at the KDE/Ros Thread, and noted that a version of that,
> and GNOME may well be available for Windows next year.
>
> If the UI Team chooses to Grow, you can offer, for example mind you, a
> Core ReactOS System, with Windows Classic, and one or more
> "Distributions", with a different GUI, such as KDE or GNOME.
>
> Same goes for ReactOS in different 'roles'. Offering versions aimed at
> Workstations, Servers, or even for Educational/Testing use, would be
> feasible down the line.
>
> Just my 0.02c

Just have fun!
James

[Robert Köpferl]

It should be possible to port Xfree86 to ROS (be it win32 or posix) as 
it has been proted to os2.
That would be the right foundation for gnome and kde.
Be it on cygwin or whatoever.
Reactos can run win32 apps without starting its graphics.

TwoTailedFox wrote:
> 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.
>
> ReactOS is all about creating a Win32-compatible Operating System.
> Now, later on, when the Kernel is sufficiently developed, we can do
> what Linux does, and create "Distributions".
>
> I had a look at the KDE/Ros Thread, and noted that a version of that,
> and GNOME may well be available for Windows next year.
>
> If the UI Team chooses to Grow, you can offer, for example mind you, a
> Core ReactOS System, with Windows Classic, and one or more
> "Distributions", with a different GUI, such as KDE or GNOME.
>
> Same goes for ReactOS in different 'roles'. Offering versions aimed at
> Workstations, Servers, or even for Educational/Testing use, would be
> feasible down the line.
>
> Just my 0.02c
>
> --
> "I had a handle on life, but then it broke"
>
> ros-general mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general

[Lyrical Nanoha]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Robert Köpferl wrote:
> It should be possible to port Xfree86 to ROS (be it win32 or posix) as it has 
> been proted to os2.
> That would be the right foundation for gnome and kde.
> Be it on cygwin or whatoever.
> Reactos can run win32 apps without starting its graphics.

Ew, XFree86.  Better to use xorg.

Anyway, ReactOS should run everything Windows can.  Windows can run Cygwin 
xorg, ergo, ReactOS should also be able to.

Solved.

-uso.

[Richard Campbell]

XFree86 has already been ported to windows, whats the point in a ROS port?

Robert Köpferl wrote:
> It should be possible to port Xfree86 to ROS (be it win32 or posix) as 
> it has been proted to os2.
> That would be the right foundation for gnome and kde.
> Be it on cygwin or whatoever.
> Reactos can run win32 apps without starting its graphics.
>
> TwoTailedFox wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > ReactOS is all about creating a Win32-compatible Operating System.
> > Now, later on, when the Kernel is sufficiently developed, we can do
> > what Linux does, and create "Distributions".
> >
> > I had a look at the KDE/Ros Thread, and noted that a version of that,
> > and GNOME may well be available for Windows next year.
> >
> > If the UI Team chooses to Grow, you can offer, for example mind you, a
> > Core ReactOS System, with Windows Classic, and one or more
> > "Distributions", with a different GUI, such as KDE or GNOME.
> >
> > Same goes for ReactOS in different 'roles'. Offering versions aimed at
> > Workstations, Servers, or even for Educational/Testing use, would be
> > feasible down the line.
> >
> > Just my 0.02c
> >
> > -- 
> > "I had a handle on life, but then it broke"
> >
> > ros-general mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general
>
> ros-general mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general

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[Lyrical Nanoha]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Richard Campbell wrote:
> XFree86 has already been ported to windows, whats the point in a ROS port?

And why use XFree when xorg is more free?  Cygwin uses xorg

-uso.

[Robert Köpferl]

Hhmmm, what you tink of is what I call a GDI-Port+win32 of xfree.
What I intended to express to you is a native or rather a win32-only (no 
GDI but own graphics maybe due directly writing into card's mem or 
utilizing a wdm-driver) port.

Richard Campbell wrote:
> XFree86 has already been ported to windows, whats the point in a ROS port?
>
> Robert Köpferl wrote:
> > It should be possible to port Xfree86 to ROS (be it win32 or posix) as 
> > it has been proted to os2.
> > That would be the right foundation for gnome and kde.
> > Be it on cygwin or whatoever.
> > Reactos can run win32 apps without starting its graphics.
> >
> > TwoTailedFox wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > ReactOS is all about creating a Win32-compatible Operating System.
> > > Now, later on, when the Kernel is sufficiently developed, we can do
> > > what Linux does, and create "Distributions".
> > >
> > > I had a look at the KDE/Ros Thread, and noted that a version of that,
> > > and GNOME may well be available for Windows next year.
> > >
> > > If the UI Team chooses to Grow, you can offer, for example mind you, a
> > > Core ReactOS System, with Windows Classic, and one or more
> > > "Distributions", with a different GUI, such as KDE or GNOME.
> > >
> > > Same goes for ReactOS in different 'roles'. Offering versions aimed at
> > > Workstations, Servers, or even for Educational/Testing use, would be
> > > feasible down the line.
> > >
> > > Just my 0.02c
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > "I had a handle on life, but then it broke"
> > >
> > > ros-general mailing list
> > > [e-mail]
> > > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general
> >
> > ros-general mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general
>
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