Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Jul 2008 15:11 UTC, submitted by elektrik
The ReactOS project has released version 0.3.5 of their ambitious operating system. ReactOS aims to be a "ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows XP compatible operating system. ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both applications and device drivers meant for NT and XP operating systems, by using a similar architecture and providing a complete and equivalent public interface." This new version comes packed with improvements.
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2006-05-29
It is so hard because people didn't want to go the Java road. Now we are stuck with a wide selection of inadequate alternatives:
- Ajax/DHTML/Javascript/etc and all real browser functions were never intended for what they are used now and won't ever be an alternative for "rich clients"
That is obvious by the way of their workings. Imagine an photoshop clone in those techniques... rerender the whole page whenever *one* pixel is changed? Not feasible.
- Flash: isn't really cross platform, i mean sure, there is an horribly bad Linux version and an unusable bad OS X implementation, but people are getting increasingly fed up with it, at least those who don't use Windows. I'm even tempted to completely remove it from my machines. I'd rather use DOS apps or become an monk in an cloister without electricity than to consider broadly using flash apps.
- Silverlight: i fully expect that to turn out as half assed as .Net. I don't ever expect an usable OS X version and the Linux/Mono version is going to be the same game of catch-up then with .Net itself.
I don't see any real movement away from Native apps except for very few types of applications and i also don't see any real advantage of going that road.
Sure, web technology is great for your insurance companies management applications, but almost none of your daily desktop apps could be done in web technology without getting actually worse.
Java could have been an way out of this, but even today it is so burdened with prejudice that i don't see that happen in the near future.