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CKDS-Broadband.com are looking at creating a microsoft alternative OS and would like people to send aus any information they have, links to tutorials and open source codes, all people who help us gather the code for this project will be thanked and if possible we will place as many of your websites under the default favourites in our browser to thank you. As you can see by the document below we want to make it as easy for windows users to convert as possible.

CKDS-OS Beta 1.0
CKDS are going to begin production on there own GUI operating system for the moment it will be called CKDS-OS 1.0 Beta this operating system will be developed over the next few months to be available in the Early part of 2006 the operating system will come quite base and will hopefully contain the following.

- An XP based GUI
- A word processor capable of opening and saving, html, doc and text documents.
- A spreadsheet application
- A calculator
- An organiser
- A webpage editing uploading application
- A painting application
- Several card games
- A variety of other basic platform games.
- Hopefully an instant messenger
- An email application
- Anti spyware application
- Anti virus
- CKDS Internet connection wizard


The software should also contain some value added services.

- Free anti-virus definition updates
- Free anti-spyware definition updates
- Free OS patches

The operating system will be a windows alternative using kernel and network applications and a system similar to that of rundll, the reasoning behind this will be there are many cheap and free windows alternative OS systems but most are linux based making it impossible to convert to another system without issues. The operating system we plan to create will not only have a full office sweet installed but the system itself will be able to run any windows appliacations with ease so converting will lose you nothing.

We are bothering in creating this operating system because there are millions of people who are running a pirate copy of a Microsoft operating system who are day by day finding it harder to operate without paying hundreds of pounds to install an original as Microsoft have dominated the market and do not show signs of dropping the fee?s.

The primary edition of this operating system will be free specifications will be made in this documents, and at the end of the document the basic construction of an OS, to help with the basic development. We will also look into getting ameture programmers to provide there own applications to bundle with the software so that the end user gets a lot more in there basic software.

Drive system
I would like the drive system to be NTFS based. But I would like It to be able to read Mac and fat partitions to increase its compatibility with other systems.

System Tools.
The following tools should be implemented into the system tools.
- Defragmenter
- Anti Virus
- Anti spyware
- Disk Clean up (with temp file removal software and compression)
- Drive compression
- Add/Remove programs
- Partition software
- File recovery software
- Back-up and recover software
- CD/DVD Burning.

all this by early part of 2006? you gotta be kidding me? if it was that easy i would have coded a OS like that myself by now..

you better visit the existing os thats windows NT compatible and support that instead. http://reactos.org/

yes this is really funny!!

must be a joke

there are many OSs that have tryed to be WIN compatable -- its really not hard to do BUT you MUST have a fully developed fully stable kernel behind it

the winAPI was specifically designed to work with many different OSs and kernels but it will take you many years before you have a kernel in place that is sufficiently developed to use to even begin work on the winAPI (the winAPI is NOT based on the kernel nor does it resolve into syscalls directly, so it need not influence your design at all)

ps: i sure do hope that MS doesn't drop the fees on windows -- that would truely destroy the computer world

pps: windows really isn't very expensive, i don't know what the exchange rate is but i usually pay ~$80 USD (winXP HOME-OEM)

that's a really good joke !

i took me 4 years to develop a stable kernel with all the necassary things! (like module-sys,full threading, etc..)

Do ya imagine how many work it is to build a GUI?
Or to get an kernel stable ?