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David Kiley:
I suppose we could consider hitching our wagon to the freedos people instead of a unix based kernel I suppose.
It would be closer to the true os/2 under the hood but it would require a lot more coding as far as creating a whole new gui, and all of the apps.
We would have to start from ground zero in that direction but it's better then holding on to a dead path.
Maybe there would be some way of using the x-server gui source code and getting it to run on a dos based system so we could use at least some of the linux development work?
I was recommending a linux/unix core since it would require a lot less work.
On the other hand people would be very intrigued by it and I could see getting a lot of people joining our flag with that move :).
Dave Yeo:
I'd think that reactos would be a better kernel to start out with. Being a clone of NT and NT having started life as OS/2 NT v3, running OS/2 v1.x binaries natively up until W2K and at one point MS running 32 bit Presentation Manager natively on NT in the lab, it is closest to OS/2.
At that I understand at the beginning of Reactos development they reached out to OS/2 developers to join in. Of course back then the OS/2 developer community resembled a herd of cats and many did not like the GPL so it was never followed up with.
dbanet:
I've written quite a lot of text, but then deleted it (here you may thank me you don't need to read me), becuase realized that arguing here makes completely no sense.
I support Martin's point of view.
muffetta:
Exactly what i was trying to say, David, especially at the point where we arrived, it was worth waiting 14 years? also paying for a software subscription? for what? if I install the last port made by Qt4 and I'm missing something I do not have maybe type rpm install update reinstall etc.. etc?
Was necessary Mensys/SSI?, sure not!
What changes if under a WPS completely rewritten and identical to the original, if not improved, there was BSD/UNIX or something similar using instead an hybrid kernel only for our OS? Is not this always a solution linux-style?
The user experience would not been changed of course, and in addition we would not have had so many problems, certainly curiosity would attracted many users and programmers, and when the new OSFree would be ready, all this time and this software certainly would have been useful.
David Kiley:
--- Quote from: Boris on August 02, 2014, 08:44:06 pm ---becuase realized that arguing here makes completely no sense.
I support Martin's point of view.
--- End quote ---
Honestly your arguing is useful since it got us considering alternative kernels such as reactos which actually makes a lot of sense.
So if you have some thoughts feel free to share :)
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