31 Jan
2004
31 Jan
'04
4:28 a.m.
--- Shachar Shemesh <wine-devel(a)shemesh.biz> wrote:
While it's certainly an exiting project, I
understood that it was NOT
based on the Windows subsystem mechanism, but rather hacking your way
into Windows NT's ring 0 using a device driver. While I'm a great fan
of
"if it works", wouldn't it be nicer, long run, to have a proper
subsystem of it?
As one of the other comments said the Windows POSIX subsystem model has
some limitations. I would like to bring CoLinux to the point that it
ties in as well to Windows and ReactOS as SFU does.
Also, what are you planning on doing with graphic
applications?
CoLinux
works by running a X server on the windows machine. That's probably
not
the best solution there is. How is the ReactOS windowing back-end
implemented?
We are looking at that currently. ReactOS's TCP/IP implemetation is
lacking so running XFree/Cygwin is not a option atm. Once we get TCP/IP
going than any Xserver for Windows should do but I would like to bring
libw11 in to ReactOS and implement a Xserver as a core OS componate.
LibW11 if you dont know about it sits on top of User32/GDI and
translates all of the XLib calls to Win32 calls. I we can make a
faster/lighter Xserver reusing this code.
Thanks
Steven
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