Hi all
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Apologies for not getting back sooner, its bank holiday weekend over here so I have taken the liberty of visiting my parents!
Firstly may I take this opportunity to thank all who have responded to this post thus far & in advance to those who intend to do so in future.
My own personal thoughts/observations in respect of this particular project are as follows:
Individuals have spent a lot of time in the background formulating this project with apparent mixed results (original 31 page posting). Although I notice that there are forum sections in respect of other projects like LiveXP I notice there is not a section for mobileOS, very little discussion & more importantly very little support, it appears which in my mind raises questions as to the current state of development of mobileOS. However on the flip side of the coin, although the word "discontinued" is used to describe mobileOS, the project is available & can be downloaded from the WinBuilder server? What I am saying is this project lying flat on its back with its paws in the air with the onset of "rigger" or with support, is it realistic to assume that we are looking possibly at the phoenix rising from the ashes?
Also I refer to the project tables in which mobileOS is classified as a current project, not within the discontinued section of the tables? Indeed the times & dates of the correspondence offered on these web sites need to be taken into consideration, that statement goes without saying but do you notice the mixed signals this is emanating to ad hoc members & new users! Further complexities are evident in language translation from Russian to English/whatever (NO offense intended to the author) but widespread coverage & exposure need to underpin a project to stimulate the development & popularity of any project for that matter. So both Russian/English communication would benefit in marketing this project?
Maybe statistical analysis of the downloads from the WinBuilder server maybe be able to be able to provided a clue as how many downloads are being recorded for any given project to determine popularity & if it was possible the region could be established as to where the individual is downloading from, the language pattern characteristics could determine the languages that are needed to target the appropriate project (Just a suggestion) E.G. If only Russians are downloading mobileOS then that would be the target audience (over simplified of course)
The next step is advertising what does the user expect to end up with when he has gone to the trouble of building a given project i.e. What it is capable of, reality of expectations, what it can do & cannot do.
What dependencies or attendance software procedures are required to formulate a project, which will indicate the users level of proficiency needed to compile a project beginners, intermediate, advanced or any shades of grey therein? I think Nuno put in context with the word "Automation" especially for beginners
If you look at the tables, mobileOS on face value seems to work with Win2K3 & XP (Support for XP is destined to end in 2010 - Probable shelf life), but the bootable stats are impressive with only network Floppy (which is understandable) & Virtual machine seem excluded (Nuno this raises another ?,are the tables incorrect?).
Also, based on some past feedback it might be safer to run the whole project inside a virtual machine to ensure your host windows is kept safe..
Thunn makes reference to nlite aiding (& if I am correct???) BootSDI. Thunn you seem to have had a working model at one time so you have valuable practical experience in its compilation. As they say there is no trade for experience so working through the construction & the documenting of the procedure may be beneficial in the production of a working tutorial?
Raising the question of the name of the project is mobileOS the best name for this project in light of what the user expects in terms of a finished project?
Have we got a deal?
In principal yes jaclaz, I would like to take a shot @ building a working model, but I suspect mobileOS is not as straight forward as other projects like LiveXP or any of the others for that matter, hence the possible reason for the diminished enthusiasm in its development, I am however realistic, as this could take some time to formulate.
A basic modular tutorial template for example
Introduction
What is MobileOS
What it is not
what is needed
dependencies
User competence levels required
Preparatory works needed, acquisition of files etc
Bootable options "branched" for diversity of media (This tutorial is all well & good for booting with a CD/DVD but what about ram or penstick etc)
Modular staged process of construction a,b,c,d etc or 1,2,3,4
Conclusion sources of support etc
Here possibly this tutorial would benefit from Flash interactive presentation techniques in the form of screen shots & navigation buttons with possible audio over, this is an idea I have been looking into recently to stimulate visual representation of any given projects, the size however, could be prohibitive without heavy compression e.g jpegs & Mp3 with zipping could provide a route & solution.
Thank you paraglider for your comments, what scripts if indeed scripts/plugins are used to support a mobileOS project or are the new scripts proposed by Nuno aspire to cross platform across the various projects, will in fact liveXP scripts work on other project formats etc?
Anyway my apologies for the lengthy post I get carried away very often but I think it is good to step back evaluate & take in the full Vista before any committment proceeds
Regards & Best Wishes,
ispy
