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- Fri Nov 18, 2016 5:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Allow setup to skip disk check
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5857
Re: Allow setup to skip disk check
Then just supply a preformatted partition to ROS Setup. That will work as good as letting ROS partition, format and check your disk. What i mean is... You aren't forced to use ROS to partition and format your target disk. You can use any tool or bootdisk (gparted, cfdisk, diskpart, fdisk/format, par...
- Mon Aug 29, 2016 5:32 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Proposals for REALLY pushing this project forward
- Replies: 33
- Views: 26519
Re: Proposals for REALLY pushing this project forward
"ReactOS Dev Team accept patches" (tm)Carlo Bramix wrote:It's easy.
- Wed Aug 17, 2016 6:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Blog: Google SoC lwIP Report Week 10
- Replies: 34
- Views: 33113
Re: Blog: Google SoC lwIP Report Week 10
Some weeks ago, being inspired by the experiments and blog entries of zhu48 , I decided to search for alternatives of lwIP to see how do they deal with the same task. I found several stacks -- mostly targeted at embedded systems and being only partial or very minimalistic, though. One of them caugh...
- Sun Aug 07, 2016 7:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: 16-bit Windows Program Support
- Replies: 69
- Views: 66765
Re: 16-bit Windows Program Support
What do you mean with WoWEXEC engine? I mean WoW32.dll and WoWEXEC.exe, the main Win16 core for NT VDM. All KRNL386 logic and some USER and GDI calls lowlevel calls are replaced by BOPs which end in these modules.. ...WoWEXEC is the Win16 shell, the equivalent of progman under a "real" Wi...
- Sat Aug 06, 2016 6:51 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: 16-bit Windows Program Support
- Replies: 69
- Views: 66765
Re: 16-bit Windows Program Support
From XP or 2003. Use their components to see if they run. Why would I want to stick 16-bit parts in a 32-bit OS with nothing to make them work in between? I'm no developer, but I'm certainly not that stupid. You can use 16-bit code in 2000-XP, and likely 32-bit versions of Vista and 7, so why not t...
- Sat Aug 06, 2016 6:51 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: 16-bit Windows Program Support
- Replies: 69
- Views: 66765
Re: 16-bit Windows Program Support
From XP or 2003. Use their components to see if they run. Why would I want to stick 16-bit parts in a 32-bit OS with nothing to make them work in between? I'm no developer, but I'm certainly not that stupid. You can use 16-bit code in 2000-XP, and likely 32-bit versions of Vista and 7, so why not t...
- Sat Aug 06, 2016 6:33 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Will ReactOS use certificates on OS files?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13826
Re: Will ReactOS use certificates on OS files?
Yeah, moving GDI out of the kernel was always something I hoped for. You think ReactOS will be doing this? No. This would break compatibility with video drivers. If any, you would expect ROS driver model migrating to the WDDM driver model in a far/distant future. That would mean some parts of the g...
- Thu Jul 21, 2016 10:24 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Open Source of DOS Based Windows Based Operating System
- Replies: 14
- Views: 26741
Re: Open Source of DOS Based Windows Based Operating System
The post above this one is fascinating. Thanks for the corrections. I didn't know how that worked. I assumed it was all a 16-bit DOS underneath. If that is not the case, then how can the same command interpreter be used both before Windows 9x loads and during? Or is the DOS underneath 32-bit all th...
- Wed Jul 13, 2016 3:42 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Open Source of DOS Based Windows Based Operating System
- Replies: 14
- Views: 26741
Re: Open Source of DOS Based Windows Based Operating System
The underlying DOS kernel is 16-bit, while it uses 32-bit code and instructions for Windows. No. Once Win.com kick up the 32Bit VMM Manager, the VMM replaces DOS as kernel. Then the system is running a fully 32bit kernel. Before this occurs, DOSMGR/VMM has an 16bit initialization routine to wrap DO...
- Mon Jun 20, 2016 7:21 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Will ReactOS use certificates on OS files?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13826
Re: Will ReactOS use certificates on OS files?
I don't see why signing mechanism can't be implemented for an extra security layer for people and developers requiring it. Only difference would be that, instead ReactOS providing signed builds and stuff like MS does (unmantainable from team side), the OS would only come with the necessary mechanism...