Seven months after announcing plans to take up where Microsoft left off with its Windows Longhorn client development, a group of members of the Joejoe.org site have built a working prototype of what they're calling 'Longhorn Reloaded'. Earlier this week, the Longhorn Reloaded developers and testers posted for download Milestone 1 of Longhorn Reloaded. "Longhorn Reloaded is a Project dedicated to the revival of the Operating System known as Code Name 'Longhorn'. To put the projects aims simply, we aim to finish off what Microsoft started before the operating system was canceled. It is a modification of Windows 6.0.4074, which was originally released during the 2004 Windows Hardware Engineers Conference," explained the Longhorn Reloaded team on the Joejoe Web site.
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Member since:2007-02-22
Cynical, but well said.
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure "Longhorn Reloaded" could very easily run into legal trouble.
This reminds of when, a long while back, a "revival" of Rhapsody was started (http://osnews.com/story.php/6130/Introducing-the-Rhapsody-Project). Sadly, it didn't get anywhere, and that will probably the case with this.
Member since:2005-07-10
I later joined with the Rhapsody Project [x86] as an Archivist/Researcher.
RacerX's Rhapsody Page:
http://www.shawcomputing.net/resources/apple/rhapsody/faq.html
It was a 1 step forward - 2 steps back kinda thing. But a real education in "searching".
Fravia's
http://www.searchlores.org/
I personally would have liked to have pursued Copland:
Mac OS 8 Revealed [Copland] The Real OS 8:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201479559/qid=1152563948/sr=1-16/...
We arguably found the first Darwin release, and other tid-bits scattered around, old Developer CDs [which are cool as hell] and the Apple site was the most help, but they had "cleaned up" after themselves real well™.
We got former Gurus that practically made the sign of the cross as they backed away from us, all the time wishing us "luck".
I theorized, privately, we'd run into crown jewels territory by the difficulty we encountered.
It pretty much fell apart on it's own, because of [wait for it] ... drivers.
It was for fun mainly, and IT was fun.
Months later and unrelated (?), the site was hacked and so was I [seriously, and we have Macs]. Did we strike a nerve with someone?
Who knows.
I don't know, we'd all pretty much gone our own way and it was dead for many reasons.
As for these Blokes at Longhorn Reloaded, I'm wishing you "luck".
Really.
;-)
hylas
Member since:2006-02-04
Well, I suppose "waste of effort" is subjective. You could be doing it just for fun and it's not really a waste of effort because you've done something you enjoyed and maybe learned something along the way. So "because I can" could be enough to make it worth while for someone.
Member since:
2007-02-22
...And say that this is a supreme waste of effort that will amount to nought in the long run. Even if they pull it of, it will still have no future.
It's a shame. There are lots of worthwhile open source projects that could do with the manpower.