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

[Brian Palmer]

FreeLoader has been able to be installed and booted from an EXT2 file
system for quite some time now.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ros-general-bounces at reactos.com 
> [mailto:ros-general-bounces at reactos.com] On Behalf Of Richard Campbell
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 7:53 AM
> To: ros-general at reactos.com
> Subject: Re: [ros-general] Microsoft wants royalties for use of FAT
> 
> 
> 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
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Discussion in Gentoo linux Forum: 
> >>http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=112001
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