Posted by Hang3r on 16:26:00 07-25-2001
The EasyOS Project is a net-wide open source operating system being developed in Assembly, im looking ofr people to join.
you can not only program for it but you can also help the website, host stuff ect ect
please visit http://www.hang3r.com for more info.
Posted by robost86 on 09:18:00 07-26-2001
Ï found this on your site:
"The Easy OS features are:
TCP/IP support, To connect to The Internet.
MSDOS Program support, Run those much loved Programs.
WINDOWS 95/98/ME Program support, Run almost all windows Programs
LINUX Program support, Keep The pengin lovers happy
There is more undocumented coming soon..."
I just want to ask if you really believe you can do that? Linux kernel, FreeDOS kernel and Windows are all giant projects, and you think you can integrate them all into one OS? Or is this just a joke?
Posted by fsvara on 09:36:00 07-26-2001
hm...
i can't really believe that, either. The Wine project tries to make windows binaries run in Linux.
Wine is pretty advanced, and runs some programs, but there are a LOT that don't work.
So, you want Linux kernel + a perfect wine + a perfect dosemu?
I guess that's pretty much impossible
Posted by robost86 on 09:56:00 07-26-2001
No, svara. He don't want to make a emulated box to run Win in. He wants to make a copy of win!
Posted by fsvara on 10:07:00 07-26-2001
yes, but wine is not an emulator, it provides support for the windows API.
That could be integrated in the Linux kernel, too.
Then you'd have a kerlnel with binary support for linux and windows.
[ This Message was edited by: fsvara on 2001-07-26 10:07 ]
Posted by robost86 on 12:27:00 07-27-2001
Sorry svara, I thought wine was another 386 emu.
Posted by bandij on 11:50:00 07-28-2001
imho it's much impossible to make a Linux which may run Win32-applications, because those applications depend on the Window$-kernel32. And Linux is obviously no Win-kernel32. It would be a similar problem if you'd try to run an IA-binary on a RISC-architecture.
My 0.02$
Bandi
[ This Message was edited by: bandij on 2001-07-28 11:51 ]
Posted by fabs on 22:28:00 07-29-2001
well, it's not exactly impossible... I mean, VMWare can at least run windows in a box... but getting the win and linux kernel to melt together is prolly impossible...
fabs
Posted by johny-5 on 17:45:00 08-03-2001
Its not at all impossible to run windows applications on linux. Just get the windows runtime files and have linux sub-boot into a win32 like kernal, then when the windows application is done, reload the kernel for Linux. A dos system built in would be kind of hard though because I can see an operating system splitting between two kernals, I cant see it splitting between 3. Just some thoughts, johny-5