The Red Screen of Death

[Num3]

Take a look a Longhorn RSD

http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2 ... 15335.aspx

[thefool]

i guess the m$ developers are bored from times to times

[dagcrack]

Or you guys are bored too for finding/sharing this sort of links :p
Longhorn will be nice, but many people will need to upgrade their pcs in order to run it smoothly (lame.. because I just want a stable OS.. and nice if possible) they will have 3D stuff on the desktop? WHAT FOR? its for kids.. come on!.. Since when an OS requires such a monster GFX card as well.. At my brother's notebook.. he has the latest longhorn beta installed, it runs fairly good though..

[Dare2]

lol. Some funny bits in that article.

I hope LongHorn ends up being a lemon (in a market take-on sense) and I think it may just become one.

Hopefully lots of people will ask why they need to upgrade to longhorn (and upgrade their hardware) - just because it's there? :roll:

Just because MS want to have more control and restriction on the apps that run and get developed for the OS?

Or does it do something significantly new and useful from a user point of view ?

[dagcrack]

and I bet more than 80% of the people here is using or uses on their works, or on their personal PCs a product from MS.. but they all talk crap of it.. then DONT USE IT!!

jeez

[Doobrey]

I hope LongHorn ends up being a lemon

But then they'd have to change it to a Yellow Screen of Death


/me ducks the rotten tomatoes.

[Dare2]

I hope LongHorn ends up being a lemon

But then they'd have to change it to a Yellow Screen of Death


/me ducks the rotten tomatoes.

lol


@dagcrack

Actually I used to be an MS supporter. Even made some posts on this forum arguing for them. But now I've had about 10% of my gear converted to linux/unix and the rest will either be converted or stay with the MS o/s currently installed.

I wonder if ReactOS will get to a stable usable-in-business status in my lifetime.

[Polo]

I wonder if ReactOS will get to a stable usable-in-business status in my lifetime.

Wow, I've just discovered that !
It's a really good idea to write that, is the current version worth to install ? I've got a windows partition and a linux partition already installed (and i'm using the Mandrake tool to choose between the two on booting), how will it reacts with them ?

[Polo]

BTW, I've downloaded the cd, it's only 14MB ?
If this is working, then it must be really good !

[dell_jockey]

Has anybody tried to use PureBasic on ReactOS? Would that be feasible, or are the target API's not yet mature enough?

[Polo]

It seems USB is not supported, so I can't test it : when I launched the live cd, everything got loaded (REALLY fast), I could see the desktop, but no keyboard or mouse since they are usb, so...
But it looks pretty good, the live cd is only 30mb !!
Maybe they'll do the first non bloated os !!
It seems they can runs some windows stuffs on it, which is good, but it really needs to get more mature, as for the moment a lot of stuffs aren't supported yet..

[Dare2]

Not exactly sure of how far along it actually is.

There is (or was) a number of parallel projects for java, net, etc on the the go, so it might all happen in a burst.

http://www.answers.com/topic/reactos has some info.

http://reactos.com/en/reactos_user_site ... us/roadmap is their roadmap set down late 2003

Neat if they get it done in next 12-18 months.

[dell_jockey]

Neat if they get it done in next 12-18 months.

Neat indeed, if...

my next question would be about a version that could be embedded on silicon...

I'd like to find a compact preemptive multitasking embeddable realtime OS that can be programmed with PB...

I can dream, can't I?

[Dare2]