Question for Experts !

Colonel Kernel · Post by **Colonel Kernel** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:08 am

mystran wrote:Well isn't WS2k3 essentially XP?

Not from a source tree point of view, no. I would imagine that there is a trunk somewhere with the main code line for Windows. However, this is never shipped. There will always be a separate branch for each shipping product, and bug fixes will be applied to that branch first before being back-ported to the main line. So at some point in the past, XP branched off main, and some time later Win2K3 branched off that same main line, not from XP itself. This is an oversimplification of course...

z180 · Post by **z180** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:52 am

If you look at the exported functions fo the windows 2003 kernel
and the libraries,you will see some improvements.The reactos project
rewrites ideas of 2003 in open source,because they think that 2003
had various improvements.

JackScott · Post by **JackScott** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 6:47 pm

The interesting thing is that you can turn back on the themes in the server ports, to make them look like XP and Vista. Indeed, I have heard that on WinServer 2008 it is as easy as turning on the themes service. I haven't confirmed that though.

ucosty · Post by **ucosty** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:34 am

Yayyak wrote:The interesting thing is that you can turn back on the themes in the server ports, to make them look like XP and Vista. Indeed, I have heard that on WinServer 2008 it is as easy as turning on the themes service. I haven't confirmed that though.

I am running Windows Server 2008 as my desktop OS. I can confirm that statement.