[ros-dev] New Webserver System

[David Johnson]

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On 8/29/05, Richard Campbell <eek2121 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Well, i don't know about other devs around here, but i don't WANT
> ReactOS to become another XP.
> 
> Windows XP typically consumes over a GB of space.
> 
> Remember NT4?  It took between 30 and 100 mb of space depending on
> features.  Windows 95?  About 15 MB.  If users want additional apps,
> they can either download them, or use a custom ROS distro that will
> include such things.  The source tree is cluttered enough as it is.
> ReactOS should only include the basic software that earlier versions
> shipped with...a notepad clone, possibly a wordpad clone, basic net
> utils, etc.
> 
> I for one miss the day when the operating system took less than 100 MB
> of space.  I for one miss the day when 64 mb of memory was all that was
> needed for browsing the web, checking email, and playing simple games
> like starcraft, etc.  Nowadays if you install XP on a machine with 64 mb
> of RAM, it swaps like crazy, and windows xp x64 pro (which i have) is
> even worse, windows vista even worse.
> 
> This is also one of the problems with linux.  Too much shit gets bundled
> with most distros.  A basic linux distro with a GUI like KDE (lets face
> it, only hardcore computer geeks (no offense) use the CLI) tends to
> consume over 500 MB space minimum.  I would like to see a return to the
> days when your operating system didn't bog down your system.  Anyone
> else remember these days?
> 
> Regards,
> Richard
> 
> 
> Rick Langschultz wrote:
> 
> > Let us consider the way Microsoft does things for just a minute.
> > When Windows XP came out it was bundled with Paint, NotePad, Write,
> > Builtin CD Burning, DVD-Burning???, Windows Media Player, and MSN
> > Messenger, as well as MSN if memory serves me correctly. Then they
> > had the addons like IIS, MSMQ, etc. As it turns out the bundled stuff
> > could be uninstalled. I think users of an operating system are
> > looking for convenience in an operating system. Even my new ibook g4
> > came with ichat installed, textedit, worldbook encyclopedia, as well
> > as many other programs that I find I use almost daily. Consider the
> > fact that prebundling software in the production release would give
> > ReactOS an advantage in the computing industry. And if a user doesn't
> > want those program they could either not use them or can uninstall
> > them. Think of the shear scope of the long term goal of reactOS. And
> > with prebundled software applications and installable add ons would
> > make reactos a more powerful, and hopefully more prominant computing
> > environment which may be on your local best buy shelf...
> >  But in order for that to happen people have to start looking at the
> > statistics and trends in computing today, whilst focusing on the
> > minor version releases like the pre-production releases.
> > All I am saying is open your mind and show yourself what computing
> > can be taken to...
> >
> > On Aug 28, 2005, at 8:56 PM, Rick Langschultz wrote:
> >
> >> I was kicking around the idea of installing a jabber server on my
> >> companies server to allow instant messaging on the local area network.
> >> Would reactos.com be willing to do something like that or is that
> >> too far out of the scope of the project.
> >>
> >> I was going to use OpenLDAP for authentication and save all of the
> >> conversations in XML files in both senders and recipients home
> >> folders. I also was going to write an XSL to display those messages.
> >>
> >> I think this would help out both developers and users of reactos.
> >> Including future RosMessenger or something like that...
> >>
> >> Just a though...
> >> Rick Langschultz
> >> rlangschultz at cox.net (Home)
> >> rlangschultz at ellemaespa.com (Work)
> >> rlangschultz at email.uophx.edu (School)
> >>
> >>
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> > Rick Langschultz
> > rlangschultz at cox.net (Home)
> > rlangschultz at ellemaespa.com (Work)
> > rlangschultz at email.uophx.edu (School)
> >
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