Re: Thorium (ROS distribution) on kickstarter
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 12:39 am
http://slashdot.org/submission/3285261/ ... ickstarterWebunny wrote: Did we get a mention on slashdot?
The Official ReactOS Forum
https://reactos.org/forum/
http://slashdot.org/submission/3285261/ ... ickstarterWebunny wrote: Did we get a mention on slashdot?
This option was tried several times.Webunny wrote:
Been a while now since I was involved in it, but I could try to use my old contacts on slashdot to see if I can get a ROS/thorium mention in there, if no-one else has tried it yet...
I forget to mention 100K $ - for EU very little money. If somebody else tries this way, would be good to mention for examle http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/Dear Sirs / s Mrs / Mr MEP EU Parliament.
http://www.reactos.org is a long time trying to create an open source clone of the Windows operating system. On https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/th ... ud-desktop are ongoing collection on chat support of this project. Slovakia, as well as all EU members pay Microsoft a lot of money for their operating system. You could not use its influence and suggests that the EU supported this project - it could save a lot of resources.
Thank you for your valuable time,
Jan Liska
Vazena/y pani/pan poslanec EU parlamentu.
http://www.reactos.org sa uz dlhsi cas snazi vytvorit open source klon operacneho systemu Windows. Na https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/th ... ud-desktop prave prebieha zbierka na podoru tohto projektu. Slovensko, ako aj vsetci clenovia EU platia firme Microsoft vela penazi za ich operacny system. Nemohli by ste vyuzit svoj vplyv a navrhnut, aby EU podporila tento projekt - mohlo by sa usetrit velke mnozstvo prostriedkov.
Dakujem za Vas drahocenny cas,
Jan Liska
No, Thorium Core is just ReactOS Distribution which makes this cloud stuff POSSIBLE.Dave3434 wrote:i know this is a bit off topic but will cloud computing forced on us? i don't like using cloud serivces if i got idea wrong then please let me know?
Thanks for the article... but can't agree with the conclusion at all, pretty short-sighted. The conclusion should be way around: the advanced and stable linux proved that acceptance problems for alternative OS'es are not stemming from technical properties. What is a chance for ReactOS, which excels in the non-technical qualities were linux lacks (most propably in a non-fixable way, while the reactos technical shortcomings will be fixed over time).Black_Fox wrote:I asked a few Czech magazines whether they are interested in covering ReactOS Kickstarter, first article appeared:
http://extrawindows.cnews.cz/clanky/kom ... u-ma-sanci
A few points taken from the article:
- every second paragraph mentions that ROS is incomplete and not very usable
- it is said that missing print support is a showstopeer
- article says kernel aims at NT5.2 and userspace aims at NT6.2 (which is nonsense according to what Z98 said yesterday in some thread).
- final summary: even advanced and stable Linux has only 1-2% of desktop market, ReactOS will have a very hard life (if it is done in time at all)
But there is a third kind of people, the people who have not jumped to linux up to now and who are frustrated with the last MS Windows iterations. And there are MANY of them, they could be the enthusiastic audience for ReactOS. Also, there is enough space in the market for another "windows" OS, developers and hardware producers would support it...Black_Fox wrote:It seems that people either say "WINE does it well enough, so I stay on Linux" or they say "ReactOS does not do it well enough, so I stay on Windows"... I hope ROS team will learn from the Kickstarter mistakes and also from other Kickstarters' good ideas to improve the next attempt (or the upcoming updates, who knows). I recently backed another KS project that is created by a Czech Republic team of initially 25 people Kingdom Come... it's mostly incomparable because they are a team of highly experienced full-time developers licensing an already developed engine, but consider the KS presentation! Thorium could find inspiration in these.
Yeah, but some of them don't get to be shown the "operating system" concept, a lot of them don't even know about Linux and most of them don't know about ReactOS.helsinkiharbour wrote:But there is a third kind of people, the people who have not jumped to linux up to now and who are frustrated with the last MS Windows iterations. And there are MANY of them, they could be the enthusiastic audience for ReactOS.
Agreed. I also think that they represent a good (may be even core) share of ROS final target audience, but unfortunately they cannot be targeted in ROS current state.Black_Fox wrote:Yeah, but some of them don't get to be shown the "operating system" concepthelsinkiharbour wrote:But there is a third kind of people, the people who have not jumped to linux up to now and who are frustrated with the last MS Windows iterations. And there are MANY of them, they could be the enthusiastic audience for ReactOS.
I think they could be targeted already, for the desktop use-case: first, ReactOS made good progress here recently, that office 2003 runs is very encouraging, Second, if you read the feedback on the kickstarter several (most?) supporter preferred to choose no reward as they were primarily interested in the desktop use case; similar responses I have read aound the web ("Why not directly ReactOS?"). Third, crowdfunding is about the vision of a potential product, not a already finished product. The vision is obvious and even impressive usage prototypes can be shown. I think the current state of ReactOS and time is exactly right for a kickstarter addressing the end-users.fred02 wrote:Agreed. I also think that they represent a good (may be even core) share of ROS final target audience, but unfortunately they cannot be targeted in ROS current state.Black_Fox wrote:Yeah, but some of them don't get to be shown the "operating system" concepthelsinkiharbour wrote:But there is a third kind of people, the people who have not jumped to linux up to now and who are frustrated with the last MS Windows iterations. And there are MANY of them, they could be the enthusiastic audience for ReactOS.