[ros-dev] Kernel Question

Andrew Faulds ajfweb at googlemail.com
Sun May 23 22:06:40 CEST 2010


Why would it make it more secure?
In this case it's not illegal, it is legal, but you'll ruin your windows
installation, and make it very unstable or even entirely unusable.
ReactOS dlls are not safe to add to windows.

On 23 May 2010 20:59, ahmet alper parker <aaparker at gmail.com> wrote:

> I mean I want to compile reacos dlls for windows and use them inside
> windows to replace a few original windows executables and dlls to make
> it more secure...
>
> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:55 PM, ahmet alper parker <aaparker at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Yes that is what I want, is it illegal and impossible?
> >
> > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:43 PM, magnus johnsson <magnusjjj at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I think he meant the reverse. He wants to use Reactos DLL's in windows.
> >>
> >> 2010/5/23 Andrew Faulds <ajfweb at googlemail.com>
> >>>
> >>> If I understand you correctly, you want to replace ReactOS dlls with
> >>> Windows dlls?
> >>> Well, it's illegal under the Microsoft Windows EULA, but if that
> doesn't
> >>> stop you, bare in mind it probably won't work, as ReactOS does not
> directly
> >>> clone Windows in all areas and in some areas things are implemented in
> >>> completely different ways.
> >>> On 23 May 2010 20:25, ahmet alper parker <aaparker at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>> I am new to this mail group and have a question that probably needs
> >>>> your kind of technical knowledge to answer. I want to use reactos,
> >>>> however, up to its completion, can I use some libraries on windows to
> >>>> replace them? In example, wine libraries can be superseded by original
> >>>> windows libraries if you own them. I want to make the inverse of this
> >>>> simply for security reasons to use a kernel fully opensource and which
> >>>> have a documented api. So can I use ntkrnlos.exe and hal.dll or
> >>>> similar in original windows installations to replace propriety kernel
> >>>> and libraries for security reasons? If yes, which of them should I
> >>>> use, and are they complete to replace them?
> >>>> Also a second question may arise as "the priority of reactos
> >>>> development can be focused on firstly these parts of the project or
> >>>> not?"...
> >>>> Best Regards...
> >>>> Ahmet Alper Parker
> >>>>
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