| Subject | : | Could OS2 benefit from ReactOS ? |
| Author | : | zionite |
| Date | : | 03 Feb, 2003 on 14:09 |
| ReactOS is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with Windows NT applications and drivers. Would OS2 and OS2 developers be able to re-use and benefit from the Open Source code for driver development for OS2 ? More info about ReactOS. |
| Subject | : | Re:Could OS2 benefit from ReactOS ? |
| Author | : | BigWarpGuy |
| Date | : | 03 Feb, 2003 on 14:26 |
| I wonder if ODIN at http://www.netlabs.org could benefit from the code from REACTOS?
OS/2 Warp-ed to the very end. |
| Subject | : | Re:Could OS2 benefit from ReactOS ? |
| Author | : | Kim |
| Date | : | 03 Feb, 2003 on 18:52 |
| ... and what about osFree, would this project as well also be able to benefit ? |
| Subject | : | Re:Could OS2 benefit from ReactOS ? |
| Author | : | BigWarpGuy |
| Date | : | 03 Feb, 2003 on 21:20 |
| http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osfree http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freeos There seems to be little activity at either of these discussion groups (both about a clone of OS/2 but from different angles). http://www.freeos.cjb.net is no longer in existence. There has not been much updated at http://www.osfree.org (IIRC, no new files). The closes thing to OSFree or FreeOS is Nudawn at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nudawn but there hasn't been any files there and little activity. I will post your question at the top two discussion groups (hopefully will give an opnion [good or bad]). OS/2 Warp-ed to the very end. |
| Subject | : | Re:Could OS2 benefit from ReactOS ? |
| Author | : | Sebadoh sys3175@optonline.net |
| Date | : | 04 Feb, 2003 on 05:37 |
I believe any time device drivers are open source (and functional) even if they can't be easily translated it is good for OS/2, because that means the information nessacary to write the driver is publicly available, but why does the OS/2 community feel this need to reuse other open source drivers, when almost all our drivers are already open source from ibm to be improved on, and we could take the time we spend waiting improving and creating new drivers for ourselves. Forget osfree.. forget freeos.. forget nudawn (which has to be a joke, lets run 32bit OS/2 applications on an XT (which it claims is a supported platform not that anyone really has a fully functional XT laying around). OS/2 is here, ECS is here.. and if we support the currently existing product.. it will be here to stay. So stop looking for alternatives (especially in vaporware) and start using OS/2 the way it can be.. ... that being said.. would someone PLEASE get scitech to include HW Accelerated OpenGL! |
| Subject | : | Re:Could OS2 benefit from ReactOS ? |
| Author | : | BigWarpGuy |
| Date | : | 04 Feb, 2003 on 16:20 |
| I received this reply from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freeos "Just to avoid the feeling that you are speaking to a black hole I will offer something of a response. I think the general answer is "yes". We could benefit from a number of things. This is only one of many. We could also benefit from looking at discussing as a form of work, as a form of doing something. I would think that those who feel only Systems like that do not come cheap. Even a clone of OS/2 Open source has no different a people resource requirement So until you can, one, afford to develop an OS/2 clone, and, REACTOS is written in C. That's not so much a crime as it is a It is ridiculous, for example, in the age of fourth generation Instead of taking C on a horizontal path to another third If you have any doubts, then follow the progress or lack of it I also posted it at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osfree but have yet to receive a reply. OS/2 Warp-ed to the very end. |
| Subject | : | Re:Could OS2 benefit from ReactOS ? |
| Author | : | Sebadoh sys3175@optonline.net |
| Date | : | 06 Feb, 2003 on 05:41 |
| That has to be the most garbage I have ever seen anyone type in one message ever. I think none of these people can be taken seriously, we should just take whatever code which actually works from any of these projects and exploit it to the best of our abilities, but something tells me we would be better off trying to write a whole new OS/2 clone in basic then listen to anyone on these projects. |
| Subject | : | Re:Could OS2 benefit from ReactOS ? |
| Author | : | BigWarpGuy |
| Date | : | 06 Feb, 2003 on 15:55 |
| This could explain why the http://www.freeos.cjb.net is no longer there and the http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freeos has very little activity and http://www.osfree.org has little activity since last year. There also seems to be little acitivity from http://sourceforge.net/projects/nudawn (I have left messages at their forum but it takes a while before anyone responds). OS/2 Warp-ed to the very end. |
| Subject | : | OS/2 Support with ReactOS! |
| Author | : | BigWarpGuy |
| Date | : | 27 Jan, 2004 on 20:08 |
| If one goes to http://www.reactos.com , there is mention of support for OS/2 as a 'subsystem'.
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| Subject | : | Re:Could OS2 benefit from ReactOS ? |
| Author | : | oli |
| Date | : | 28 Jan, 2004 on 20:41 |
Odin is much further along than ROS so this is doubtful |