I can essentially test both, in Virtual Machines and on real systems. I have a spare hard drive in my main rig and several in a spare.

Count me in for testing.

I knew that extra 500gb HD would come in handy.

Not to be shamelessly advertising, but...
Longhorn X has made its home on EABG!
http://eabetagroup.info/forum/viewforum.php?f=110

i can too test your new project, just pm me.

I call beta testing!

I'll be there for beta test if you need!

This sounds interesting. I would love to test this.

Count me in for Beta Testing, too

The project that does NOT HAVE a funny name.
And, as I see, that it's really wanted, I guess it's good ?
I hope I'll hear about it when it's ready to go.

//ex. project with funny name- Windows RG SP453 build_12_e9876(ReallyGood)

Who said the project had a funny name? Or did I miss something...

I never said the project would have a funny name. o_O

Anyways, possible change of plans.
I'll be experimenting with different things for the project. One of them may be to use Server 2003 and the WRK and make a sort of "Longhorn" build while still having it be partially a cloud OS.

No, haha, what I really ment was that, I see alot of projects that have funny names. My friend once made a Windows 98 ReallyGood (RG) edition, so thats kinda funny, but this is even better than "Vista" or whatever thing (I hate vista, the one they released). Altho I think Mac has OS X, so some of Mac lovers may me angry, and the design can be compared to the OS X (a little).

Anyway, sorry for my bad English.
And sorry if I messed with your minds.

Even though it won't look like OS X, I knew someone would figure out why I chose "Longhorn X" as the name

I as well it sounds like a nice lil side project.

First official screenshot and first official buildtag. Only from Longhorn X.



SOSBoot:

So no Windows Server core? OK, that means I'll be getting VB6 soon.

It uses Windows Server 2003 as a core.
.NET will be included so you can use vb.net if you want

EDIT:
The first winmain build! It doesn't have much and it isn't anywhere near release, but this is the first unified build with all three SKUs (Personal, Professional, Server).

Here's a screenshot of Longhorn X Professional:


Sadly, networking is broken in this build.

Is there a download link for this anywhere yet? Would like to test it out.

Is the aero from this build from a theme or was a program needed?

Nope, not yet. It's still in early development




TrueTransparency with a custom skin.
Newest build also has a transparent, black taskbar with a plain white Windows logo.

Those screenies look great. Is is possible to add gadget things like Windows 7?

Not yet.

Well, this is WRK kernel running on Longhorn, or server 2003 with new version and build?

WRK running on Server 2003, not Longhorn.
If you'll read the first post, I said that it's not Longhorn based, although understandably the merge may have caused confusion

Ok. But ... you will use the shell of Longhorn or will it create new things, or not do anything?

Well, on "SOS" screen, this is "nogui" option boot or not?