Star Enthusiasts Progress with Plans to Resurrect Windows 'Longhorn'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 25th May 2007 16:59 UTC, submitted by Raymond Preston
Windows 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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What good fun.
by cyclops on Fri 25th May 2007 18:11 UTC
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2006-03-12

I am astonished that nobody is saying "go for it", and it sounds like a interesting complement to Reactos or even Wine, but people should work on what *they* want to work on...its their time. The project is even replacing IE7 with a Firefox under the dubious name “Longzilla Explorer.”

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RE: What good fun.
by RandomGuy on Fri 25th May 2007 18:21 in reply to "What good fun."
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2006-07-30

... it sounds like a interesting complement to Reactos or even Wine...

If by complement you mean filling a similar ecological niche then, yes.
But Reactos and Wine certainly cannot use any code from this project without running into massive legal trouble.

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RE: What good fun.
by shykid on Fri 25th May 2007 18:33 in reply to "What good fun."
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2007-02-22

Thanks a lot. "Longzilla Explorer" made my drink run out of my nose. That name is just... inherently funny to me.

I'm a huge fan of OS revival projects. I want to see potential in this, but the thing is, it's legally shoddy because it uses somebody else's work. Because of that, it's less likely to get anywhere until that changes. (And I seriously don't see Microsoft giving this project their blessing.) Developers would be unwilling to work on LR if their work goes nowhere thanks to a cease & desist order. Also, without access to Longhorn's code, only so much can be done.

Despite this, I think it would be pretty badass if they sit this on top of ReactOS (when/if both mature enough, of course).

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