[ros-general] Microsoft wants royalties for use of FAT

[Richard Campbell]

see the earlier link i posted, there appears to be a working ext2 driver 
available...someone just needs to modify ROS/freeloader to boot from an 
ext2 partition

Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood wrote:

>I still think we should aim to get one of the Linux file systems working
>under ReactOS pretty soon-ish. Then if the worst does happen at least it
>won't be such a major blow.
>
>OK, so the bad thing is, we'd lose FAT and maybe eventually NTFS support
>too. The good thing is... What's there to stop users from just copying over
>the relevant system files from Windows NT/2000/XP when the ReactOS kernel is
>strong enough to support them? Sure, if we're running on a Linux file system
>it won't be a straightforward file copy operation, but it shouldn't be too
>hard to make a program that can shift a couple of files from Windows into
>the ReactOS partition, using the ReactOS ext2/3/ReiserFS driver?
>
>This would swing in favour of Linux too, since people like me who dual-boot
>would no longer have to choose between no security/file system compatibility
>(using FAT for data), and high security/no file system compatibility
>(ext2/3/ReiserFS and NTFS.)
>
>And again, we could have a Linux swap partition driver (I use one for my
>Win2k installation at the moment) and allow the user to select that as a
>pagefile location.
>
>The end result would be that users might be less willing to install ReactOS
>for fear of losing FS compatibility with Windows. However, if ROS can be
>booted from a CD, maybe it can have an option to run a "demo" environment
>where it loads everything from CD?
>
>Even better - why not just make the installer start up the GUI from the CD
>with a "welcome to ReactOS" screen, and then from there let the user select
>if they want to install or have a play around with ReactOS first. I mean,
>once it's loaded, it's loaded, right? So you could jump into a useable OS
>and be able to do almost anything you can do with Windows. Maybe even allow
>network installation somehow?
>
>Just a few crazy ideas ;)
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Sami Petteri Niemi" <j82144 at uwasa.fi>
>To: <ros-general at reactos.com>
>Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 10:53 AM
>Subject: Re: [ros-general] Microsoft wants royalties for use of FAT
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