qwijibow 0 Report post Posted April 1, 2005 Linux used to be too hard for the common user, didnt support enough hardware, and didnt have enough desktop tools to replace windows tools.currently the only 2 remaining complaints about linux are that (a) rare hardware / winModems and some wireless lan cards dont always support linux.( Most commercial software is never ported to linux.the wine proect has been working on problem ( and is doeing extremely well.they can even get IE (which is very tightly integrated into windows) to run on Linux !problem (a) can only be sorted with hardware hacking, reverse engineering, and developeing open source alternativs.... untill now !!!!Some gentoo guys, were thinking... maybe it would be easyer to *fix* the windows kernel, than it would be to write a driver wrapper for windows drivers in linux.They take the Windows Kernel from WindowsXP or windows2K, Add an API wrapper to make the NT kernel comply with POSIX standards.They then manage to make the kernel run the GNU operating system !!!!!Gentoo running on a windowsNT kernel and using windows drivers !The only thing they take from windows is the kernel and drivers, no emulation or anything.technically, its not linux anymore... (full name GNU/Linux) its (GNU/NT)is there anything Open source cant do ???because the NT kernel is property of microsoft, Gentoo cannot release install cd's.but they do provide a script so you can make your own cd (aslong as you have a copy of XP sp2 or windows2k)it will probably be a couple of years before this distro is ready for home use.assuming MS dont find a way to make it illegal.Because almost all computers are sold with MS windows, its currently completely legal to do this.Microsoft has always been attacking Linux...but they have never said anything bad about GNU.Ofcourse its not as fast as linux, and not as stable.but its a good step forward in boosting hardware support for GNU.some links...FAQhttp://gentooexperimental.org/nt/gentoo-nt-faq.htmlgeNToo boot loghttp://gentooexperimental.org/nt/bootlog.txt(Hands up...... who read my whole post, and the 2 links... and got all the way here without realising it was an april fools day joke by gentoo ! ???) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG 0 Report post Posted April 1, 2005 Holyyy COW !! No wonder all of us here love you Qwiji.. you're always the first one out with such cool news from the linux front... Great man.. thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
qwijibow 0 Report post Posted April 1, 2005 i think you missed the bottom line of my post. (Hands up...... who read my whole post, and the 2 links... and got all the way here without realising it was an april fools day joke by gentoo ! ???)lol, thats one hand up then. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG 0 Report post Posted April 1, 2005 Haha damned cool - you had me fooled But maybe you should remove your second post so that others get through till the end of it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
qwijibow 0 Report post Posted April 1, 2005 i was fooled myself when i started reading it. then i remembered reading a slashdot article on how paris hilton was the new spokesperson for linux, and rememberd it was april fools day Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rapisten1405241486 0 Report post Posted April 1, 2005 OKi i didnt know they would do a so good joke but anyway it was awesome. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fourthbean 0 Report post Posted April 1, 2005 I didn't even get one quarter of the way through and started reading the comments. I was going to say that I didn't like linux using windows "technology" to make it better but I see now that I don't have to worry about that. lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the empty calorie 0 Report post Posted April 1, 2005 Yeah, I was about to say that's the dumbest Idea I've ever heard of. It would be a disgrace to GNU... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
