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- Wed Sep 26, 2018 6:52 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Development Direction
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7306
Re: Development Direction
Lets assume an average user wants to get away from Windows and it's many issues. The only place to go is POSIX or RoS. Of the various POSIX alternatives, Mint has decent repute, it already has Windows themes (for various versions of Windows). Out of the box the Mint Cinnamon will read NTFS, and will...
- Wed Sep 26, 2018 2:57 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: A question about ReactOS code and copyright ???
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7975
Re: A question about ReactOS code and copyright ???
This is from the Linux Kernel Mailing List - http://archive.is/vJCtJ Date Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:28:14 +0000 From unconditionedwitness@redchan ... Subject Re: A Plea to Unfuck our Codes of Conduct Regarding those who are ejected from the Linux Kernel Community after this CoC: Contributors can, at any t...
- Tue Sep 25, 2018 4:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: A question about ReactOS code and copyright ???
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7975
Re: A question about ReactOS code and copyright ???
Any code developers can use that saves time and is open source is good code. My understanding with the Linux discussion is GPL 2, which may allow revocation of license under GPL 2 by the copyright owner. GPL 3 solves this, but a lot of the Linux was done and is still under GPL 2. If copyright owners...
- Mon Sep 24, 2018 6:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: A question about ReactOS code and copyright ???
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7975
Re: A question about ReactOS code and copyright ???
Thanks for the reply and information. I don't want to provide links to external websites, but will if it is permitted (no wish to advertise for any other site).
- Mon Sep 24, 2018 5:05 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: A question about ReactOS code and copyright ???
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7975
A question about ReactOS code and copyright ???
Hi, Of late there has been some drama in the Linux community, about a new code of conduct. There seems to be some animus between various parties. It occurs to me that many contributors to Linux own copyrights to their work, and may be able to pull their work from public use. It is possible nothing w...
- Sat Sep 22, 2018 1:44 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Development Direction
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7306
Re: Development Direction
Walt, We may have similar backgrounds / experience. The developers here are convinced they need to implement the 32 bit version of Windows first, on a single CPU within 4 GB of RAM. This isn't unreasonable, but it taking a long time. As an experiment, I tried to install and run RoS on a USB drive wi...
- Sat Sep 22, 2018 1:25 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: WINE hoax
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5476
WINE hoax or April fools joke from 2011??
An April fools joke from 2011??
- Fri Sep 21, 2018 8:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: 67 specific reasons for wanting ReactOS:
- Replies: 197
- Views: 182159
Re: 50 specific reasons for wanting ReactOS:
Can you explain why that is a boon for ReactOS in comparison to any o/s that we might build? (bearing in mind we cannot build windows) This means anyone can easily test concerns about the validity of the binary. It means alternate code to solve issues can be developed by almost anyone who runs the ...
- Fri Sep 21, 2018 8:13 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: 67 specific reasons for wanting ReactOS:
- Replies: 197
- Views: 182159
Re: 50 specific reasons for wanting ReactOS:
I'll try; 1) It's not Microsoft. 2) Spying on users isn't part of the design. 3) Open source means many eyes can see what goes into RoS. 4) Smaller operating system with smaller footprint. 5) Development well documented and open, likely mitigating against a legal shutdown. 6) Full compile and build ...
- Thu Sep 13, 2018 2:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: USB safe removal
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2090
Re: USB safe removal
That was amazingly unhelpful. Is the intention to replicate Microsoft nasty consumer attitudes? You could clarify, and explain, be helpful. Unless like Microsoft you don't give a shit about customer experience.
- Mon Sep 03, 2018 8:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Target Kernel
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6293
Re: Target Kernel
First we need a stable kernel and always trying to add some questionable stuff MS did with any newer Windows does not help us here. As soon as NT5.X is good to go we can discuss about that stuff, so I 100% support middings' post. God bless you and go for it. Get a stable Win 32 kernel single core N...
- Fri Aug 31, 2018 6:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: ReactOS, a possible alternative to Linux?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5444
Re: ReactOS, a possible alternative to Linux?
usually named Windows, Linux, MacOS for PC A different way to think of this might be: NT (Windows/ROS) or *nix (Unix/Linux/MacOS/BSD). I think OP may be misunderstood here. The initial post reads to me as if OP is asking, "Will ROS one day be considered an alternative to the major market share...
- Wed Aug 22, 2018 2:59 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: What is the ultimate goal of react os?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7021
Re: What is the ultimate goal of react os?
Also to the guy above.. having 1k posts you ought to realise that if you were nicer to people we'd probably have more people developing on ReactOS than we do now. Same problem over at Haiku people need be nice. LOL :lol: :lol: :lol: Real programmers (what matters for ReactOS) code, they don't care ...
- Wed Aug 22, 2018 2:54 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: What is the ultimate goal of react os?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7021
Re: What is the ultimate goal of react os?
Use Linux drivers, they're already done. Gawd blimey - the uneducated masses - gawd bless 'em. The results for AMD's new 32 core / 64 execution unit Ryzen 2990WX Threadripper are in, and Windows isn't very good compared to Linux at using all those cores. In terms of handling interrupts, page faults...
- Tue Aug 14, 2018 2:48 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: What is the ultimate goal of react os?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7021
Re: What is the ultimate goal of react os?
Use Linux drivers, they're already done.shunesburg wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 9:49 amNo it's not possible. Not because it's impossible, but because the goal is the compatibility with the applications and drivers of "Windows".