[ros-general] why folks

[Patrick Mauritz]

Am Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2004 20:57 schrieb Enrico Weigelt:
> > people tend to joke about the change in WinNT4 where parts of the graphic
> > driver were moved to kernelspace and point to the "superior" design of
> > linux.
> If you dont like it, why not writing something better for the linux kernel
kgi-wip.sf.net, #kgi on irc.freenode.org

also take a look for mentions of kgi on the linux-kernel mailing list. the 
situation is similar to UDI (you'll get _roasted_ from all sides)

> Why not a new kernel branche / inofficial patches ?
> If the code is good, they'll someday take it into the official distro.
where "someday" might be when epoch equals infinity, depending on who's toes 
you step on. (see kgi on lkml)

> Many good kernel projects were developed outside of the main tree for a
> very long time, i.e. isdn4linux, capi4linux, alsa, ...
in which way is that different to writing your own kernel, if you have to 
redesign or improve most of it, anyway - except for bootstrapping a working 
ReactOS system, which is done by now?
this discussion takes place at least two years too late for any constructive 
outcome.

> personalities ?
like on WinNT: Posix+, Win32, OS/2, DOS - all of them are different 
personalities of the OS in the way that they represent a different interface 
to client applications, yet building on the same foundation.


patrick mauritz
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