[ros-dev] New Webserver System

[Emanuele Aliberti]

Richard Campbell 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.

Also the Win32 subsystem is not technically necessary. All Win32 pieces 
could be moved off the main reactos tree and included as optional 
linking them from modules. I proposed it years ago. It is not an easy 
task, though, because setup should know that, if the user asks for no 
personalty at all, it should install none (now win32 is by default in). 
Personalities (win, posix, os2, vms, ...) should come on the cd-rom as 
separate cab files and post install procedures add registry entries, 
create directoryes etc. A no-personality ReactOS will be a really light 
OS, perfect for custom text/graphics boxes (you just need writing an 
entry in the registry for the session manager to start your native 
program, which will be the only user program in the box (excluding the 
sm itself).

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:Emanuele Aliberti