Boots but doesnt work because USB doesnt work yet, cant control it :)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 01/09/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Köpferl</b> <<a href="mailto:rob@koepferl.de">rob@koepferl.de</a>
> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">sounds sexy<br>But is this realizable?<br><br>Emanuele Aliberti wrote:<br>
> Richard Campbell wrote:<br>><br>>> Well, i don't know about other devs around here, but i don't WANT<br>>> ReactOS to become another XP.<br>>><br>>> Windows XP typically consumes over a GB of space.
<br>>><br>>> Remember NT4? It took between 30 and 100 mb of space depending on<br>>> features. Windows 95? About 15 MB. If users want additional apps,<br>>> they can either download them, or use a custom ROS distro that will
<br>>> include such things. The source tree is cluttered enough as it is.<br>>> ReactOS should only include the basic software that earlier versions<br>>> shipped with...a notepad clone, possibly a wordpad clone, basic net
<br>>> utils, etc.<br>><br>><br>> Also the Win32 subsystem is not technically necessary. All Win32 pieces<br>> could be moved off the main reactos tree and included as optional<br>> linking them from modules. I proposed it years ago. It is not an easy
<br>> task, though, because setup should know that, if the user asks for no<br>> personalty at all, it should install none (now win32 is by default in).<br>> Personalities (win, posix, os2, vms, ...) should come on the cd-rom as
<br>> separate cab files and post install procedures add registry entries,<br>> create directoryes etc. A no-personality ReactOS will be a really light<br>> OS, perfect for custom text/graphics boxes (you just need writing an
<br>> entry in the registry for the session manager to start your native<br>> program, which will be the only user program in the box (excluding the<br>> sm itself).<br>><br>_______________________________________________
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