hi Siju , I am familiar with ReactOS initiative. ( I have not tried it yet though)
What i was putting forward is different. It is very hard to do Binary Translation ( sort of ) for every foriegn Binary ( read Microsoft Windows based Portable Executable ) recieved on Wine and React OS. The Wine project and React OS can provide libraries for Every Windows API call. They cannot reproduce the bugs in the Microsoft's Implementation. Too often in the case of system software , bugs tends to cancel each other. That is why all programs cannot run successfully at the Binary Level. In my case , the source code base was recompiled on Fedora 10 and Debian Lenny . The Windows API libraries were taken from Wine and the other libraries , i substituted with it's Posix equivalent. So , it is not same as Binary Translation. ( The terminolgy might get confused here ) I am advocating the Source to Binary Translation using tools like GCC , Mono , Harbour , GCJ. The empahsis is on porting applications than running it. To do these stuff , we need to build a community of developers who are familiar with Cross Platform Programming , Polyglot Programming ( Mixed Language Programming ) , Windows Programming ( Know your "enemy" well before you attack them ) and Other System Programming toopics. I am talking about building a community of developers who can tackle this. Moreover , i was talking about things which i have done (emphasis) recently. I am willing to share this to anyone interested !. regards Praseed Pai http://praseedp.blogspot.com --- On Sun, 8/29/10, Siju George <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Siju George <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Distributions > To: "This List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU, GPL Software" > <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, August 29, 2010, 1:23 AM > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 10:35 PM, > Praseed Pai <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I am putting forward a new formula called > > > > "BEAT" Microsoft > > > > Reminds me of > > http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html > > get a live experience here > > http://floz.v2.cs.unibo.it:8880/display/0 > > :-) > > --Siju > > _______________________________________________ > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #[email protected] > _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
