dreimer wrote: ↑Mon Jun 30, 2025 8:49 am
And once more... Russia NEVER was a investor for us. I should know as vice president of the only legal representation we have. And this no profit assiciation is registered in Germany btw (
https://ev.reactos.org/index_en.htm). We have ZERO investors that are not private donations. I wonder when finally ppl will stop telling these lies...
Anyways I did not register because of that. I registered to ask you why you think you can get any more developers that are in the slightest bit experienced enough to create a NT arch based OS from scatch than we have? We are looking eagerly for devs everywhere for years, have CLT and FOSDEM booths to represent the project and still found about 6 devs in the recent three years... This is it! Such low level NT devs don't grow on trees, ya know? But sure, lets split the scarce resources even more by creating a fork of a forked fork again. Instead of working together, we reinvent the wheel the 39289th time just because the color was ugly. This is why I follow ReactOS and am no big fan of most other FOSS projects which fork again and again because of some absolutely irrelevant detail and then wonder why nothing progresses if everyone works against each other and no one is able to work on a compromise TOGETHER?!
So and now regarding your feature list. I see quite a few things we are already working on. (Or to be precise a small team of our newest project members decided to work on and by doing so finally got rid of a few obstacles preventing the step to NT6+). If you wanna be part of something that has at least a chance above 0 to realize your goals, I recommend you show up on our Mattermost or the (unofficial Discord). If you have any skills to aim to such high goals, we might be in dire need of your skills.
Greetings
Daniel Reimer
Vice President of ReactOS Deutschland e.V.
Some very deep insight. Thank you! I happen to have interest. Though I'm not sure how much free time I have. I think serious projects should share code, not write their own.
That said, I spent a few days implementing parts of the Windows API myself, was able to get some unmodified GUI programs to compile and run with my headers and SDL interface. More of an experimental thing as a learning experience, but I'm not saying it can't go anywhere.
kerravon wrote: ↑Sat Jul 05, 2025 10:40 pm
bellezzasolo wrote: ↑Fri Jul 04, 2025 2:46 am
zaval wrote: ↑Wed Jul 02, 2025 8:49 am
Or, rather, toreador's one?
As for the subject. Kids' maximalism. It's not for shaming, mocking, it's normal. Eventually, it'll settle.
I remember my first idea was to support Windows, Mac, and Linux applications.
PDOS/386 supports (certain) Windows, Linux and OS/2 apps. And I just realized that with the new technique of overriding interrupts, PDOS-generic should be able to support (certain - I need to rewrite them to conform to a new spec - same as Atari) Linux apps too.
That's interesting. I have been looking into Darling, Pure Darwin, Gramine, etc. as various examples of cross compatibility. I'm experimenting with an OS that can support multiple personality subsystems with different syscall interfaces, sharing resources between each "OS." This sounds like a useful project to glean from.
I also have a working x86 emulator and DOS emulator, more subsystems that could possibly share resources; and the possibility of supporting in-process emulation of binaries for compatibility, like Rosetta 2.
