Re: Reaction project announcement.

Reactos is not linux and will never be. Imitating linux software is thus 
a step in wrong direction.
Python is unacceptable too. It would require us to bundle unnecessary stuff.



David Zaragoza pisze:
> Hello
>
> I'm pleased to announce the release of Reaction: an aptitude like 
> application written specifically for ReactOS, developed in python. The 
> project homepage is http://code.google.com/p/reaction/
>
> The project have two goals: to provide a repository of free software 
> applications that are known to work decently, i.e doesn't crash, with 
> the latest release of ReactOS; And to provide an automated way to 
> install a set of applications that make a desktop system, eg. Web 
> browser, email client, media player, etc. on ReactOS, something like the 
> GNU/Linux distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva and others.
>
> Software freedom is really important to me, that's why Reaction is 
> completely free software and the application repository will only have 
> free software applications.
>
> There is an installer available at 
> http://reaction.googlecode.com/files/reaction.exe If you have some free 
> time please check it out, and report any bugs you find to 
> http://code.google.com/p/reaction/issues/list
>
> Please remember this is the first release of reaction and it will have 
> bugs for sure, so please be patient.
>
> I'll write some documentation this weekend, but if you are familiar with 
> aptitude, I'm pretty sure there will be no problem figuring reaction out.
>
> I hope you find it useful.
>
> Regards.
> David Zaragoza
>
> ps. Try 'reaction install reactos-desktop' for a bundle of nice desktop 
> applications. There are only three applications at the moment, but it 
> will grow.
>
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