[fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] [OT] Sven, don't defect to the dark side!

[Sven Barth]

Am 13.03.2013 07:55 schrieb "ListMember" <listmember at letterboxes.org>:
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>> Nevertheless I like ReactOS very much. I'm a huge fan of the NT kernel
(just in case: I'm not talking about the Win32 API here) and one of my
dreams would be a new NT subsystem written in FPC with an as much as
possible Pascal userland (why do you think I implemented the NativeNT
target?).
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> So; while I do appreciate what ReactOS guys are doing, I just cannot see
that project to be reasonably useful anytime soon.

It's running rather well already on emulators. And on some hardware it
already works as well. In the last years it gained USB and WiFi support
(WEP only for now). So it's progressing rather well and the community is
big enough that it won't just die.

Also ReactOS is to Windows what Linux and Minix were to Unix: an open
source alternative. Alone because of that it deserves support.

Additionally it already can run FPC and Lazarus. :)

> What I would kill for would be a non-GUI version of Windows (preferably
x64) that we could compile and run on (most/some of) the platforms FPC runs
as servers.

ReactOS can be started in a headless mode (or at least it could be). It
will then start the GUI only if a GUI application is encountered.

Regards,
Sven
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