Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Dec 2006 22:58 UTC, submitted by frik85
ReactOS, the open source implementation of a Windows XP/2003 compatible operating system, just published a new interview in their series of interviews with ReactOS developers. Today's interview features the developer Johannes Anderwald, who has worked on source compatibility with Visual Studio Development Suite lately.
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All I can say, is that hopefully by the time ReactOS is considered feature-complete, it will manage to remain somewhat small and efficient.
Not necessarily. Look at drivers.cab only in the windows installation directory (C:WINDOWSDriver Cachei386). Drivers alone eat ~60MB and there's tons of them - after unpacking it's almost 300MB !
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2006-08-01
"...so by the time we start to see "rock solid" versions the install size may well be more than 40meg."
All OS's grow larger as you add features, thats why OS X comes on an install DVD now.
That is very true that ReactOS will become much larger as they add functionality and compatibility, but I don't think it will ever become as large or bloated. Trust me, I'm not trash talking Windows. I happen to think that Windows is a good OS, even though I'm a Mac and Linux guy
All I can say, is that hopefully by the time ReactOS is considered feature-complete, it will manage to remain somewhat small and efficient.