[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of WinGNU

[brandon6684]

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Brandon Sharitt <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: WinGNU
System name: wingnu
This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

My project isn\'t exactly part of the GNU project itself, but it will ulimatly 
aim to become the GNU implementation of windows. I basically want to do for 
Windows, what the GNU project has done for UNIX. The first part will be to more 
or less gather the current free software for Windows and put it in a singular 
library. The reason I need a service like this, is that after finding some the 
avalible software, I will need a way to maintain unmaintianed projects, modify 
some of the existing ones, redirect some missguided ones to better fit with the 
WinGNU operating system, and it will also be used to start new projects that 
aren\'t avalible yet to buildsome of the pieces. Some examples are, for the 
kernel, the ReactOS kernel would be good, the site would privode a way for 
people to find it and help out there. Also, If an e-mail client was found and 
it was abandoned, or it was slighly different from what I needed, I would put 
it on this project and, the WinGNU developers would improve it. And lastly for 
pieces I can\'t find like the GUI or non-Mozilla web browser, I would set up a 
new project for that area. In the end when a good amount of free stable 
software exists, they would then be assembled into a complete, cohesive, free 
operating system. While  this project would likely provide a little competion 
for the actual GNU operating system, that\'s not its goal, it is geared toward 
more of a desktop OS. I don\'t think the Windows arcitecture, not even NT, is 
logical as a server at all, we\'ll reserve that for a UNIX type OS, but on the 
other hand, I think it\'s perfect for the desktop. The project isn\'t actually 
posted on the internet yet, except to a couple mailing list the idea has been 
thrown around, but it isn\'t a web page yet.