i like comparing reactos to chemistry:
lets say windows is a really complicated molecule that can cure cancer (lets face it though, windows is in actuality a cancer) that uses hundreds of atoms. reactos wants to be like windows, but it has no idea what compounds are used, so they make it up.
reactos just happens to use some, but not all, of the same molecular structure as windows, so instead of curing cancer, it just slows down the growth. as the molecule gets built upon, it gets closer and closer to reversing cancer, but the chances of this molecule ever becoming exactly like windows is very slim. they could both have the same amount of atoms, but 1 uses carbon while the other uses silicon. this 1 atom difference could mean that one is actually more efficient than the other, but it could also be the difference between functional and not.
i believe reactos needs to take everything 1 step at a time. cover stuff like drivers and kernel functionality first, then get to working with applications. they could probably rely on the wine project to do most of the work for them. once reactos' driver "molecule" becomes identical (or close to it) to windows', that should mean any driver you install will work without failure. an open source OS having the ability to install ANY windows driver is a powerful thing.
lets say windows is a really complicated molecule that can cure cancer (lets face it though, windows is in actuality a cancer) that uses hundreds of atoms. reactos wants to be like windows, but it has no idea what compounds are used, so they make it up.
reactos just happens to use some, but not all, of the same molecular structure as windows, so instead of curing cancer, it just slows down the growth. as the molecule gets built upon, it gets closer and closer to reversing cancer, but the chances of this molecule ever becoming exactly like windows is very slim. they could both have the same amount of atoms, but 1 uses carbon while the other uses silicon. this 1 atom difference could mean that one is actually more efficient than the other, but it could also be the difference between functional and not.
i believe reactos needs to take everything 1 step at a time. cover stuff like drivers and kernel functionality first, then get to working with applications. they could probably rely on the wine project to do most of the work for them. once reactos' driver "molecule" becomes identical (or close to it) to windows', that should mean any driver you install will work without failure. an open source OS having the ability to install ANY windows driver is a powerful thing.
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