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- Mon Oct 29, 2012 4:09 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: UTF-8 Everywhere
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7383
Re: UTF-8 Everywhere
Thank you for your input. I prefer UTF-8 myself. I also prefer that every program I have written on the Windows platform since, IIRC, 1986, works as expected on ReactOS. So what exactly is your point? Should ReactOS behave the same as Windows (which is the goal)? Or should it do something inconsiste...
- Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:05 am
- Forum: ReactOS Website discussion
- Topic: about of the abandoned blogs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6098
Re: about of the abandoned blogs
Most of the bloggers began because of a long wait between updates. Several people tried to provide information. At this point, most of the changes are very obscure. It does not make sense to make an update on every item that changes. The updates on the home page are your best source of information. ...
- Mon Oct 29, 2012 2:46 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: ReactOS on ARM, a niche to fill?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8388
Re: ReactOS on ARM, a niche to fill?
First problem: getting ROS to run on ARM. Lots of work has been done, but I don't think it's complete. A number of core changes need to be finished, is my last understanding, for some of the ARM work to be merged. A second effort is re-targeting the version of Windows ROS intends to support. Without...
- Sun Sep 30, 2012 6:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: arwinss in reactos?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5242
Re: arwinss in reactos?
Do not expect it to make ReactOS magically better. Some things will be better, others will not. Whether you think it is better depends on which applications you use. Think of this as using Wine's versions of the presentation layer (user32/gdi32). This creates the user controls and allows interacting...
- Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Read only os pro and cons
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8555
Re: Read only os pro and cons
You want the windows recovery console. The rest of this post is why that is true, and I'm only going beyond that first sentence because you are looking for pros and cons, and evolving your idea with new information. So here is information. A read-only partition controlled with software is not a read...
- Fri Sep 21, 2012 4:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Could this be a way to more dev contracts ?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5059
Re: Could this be a way to more dev contracts ?
As a potential contributor, I would like to know that my contribution would be used for something I find useful, so that I can weigh the cost vs. value in deciding whether, or how much, to contribute. As a potential contributor, I would like to be able to specify "award a contract", "...
- Fri Sep 21, 2012 4:10 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Information required
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7813
Re: Information required
I think no one has replied because the answer is very complicated. "Windows Internals" book, probably 4th or 5th edition, would be a great place to start. Or Charles Petzold's "Programming Windows" series. This gives a basic background, since the Intel architecture (x86 / x64) an...
- Fri Sep 21, 2012 3:53 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: If microsoft goes out of busniess?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 28834
Re: If microsoft goes out of busniess?
Windows 2000 is not some old product that was replaced with XP or Vista or Windows 7. Many of the core concepts, and actual code, are still present in current Windows home and server versions. If they release the entire codebase, all of the code, including the stuff that powers the current versions ...
- Thu Aug 30, 2012 5:29 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: text to Donate
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1998
Re: text to Donate
If you mean "send a text to the number XXXXXXXX to donate" then no. It involves cooperation with wireless providers, lots of work and documentation, and in general yields very little unless massively and repeatedly spammed. Usually it is a set amount, requiring repeated texts to get to you...
- Thu Aug 30, 2012 5:19 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: How is it ReactOS don't get into trouble for this by Windows
- Replies: 27
- Views: 20243
Re: How is it ReactOS don't get into trouble for this by Win
You might be interested in InfoZip (zlib). Phil Katz wrote pkzip, which used a patented compression method. InfoZip implemented a binary-compatible library without the patent infringement. Compression and decompression are compatible, just different. You also may be interested in the Oracle / Google...
- Thu Aug 30, 2012 4:30 am
- Forum: Development Help
- Topic: Win32++
- Replies: 13
- Views: 16909
Re: Win32++
@Dominik2 My reply was to your supporting documentation, not to you. Specifically, "The points made on the "Why not MFC page" are easily refuted. My comments were in context of that page. So yes, it was perhaps a language problem. You did not understand that I was referring to the pro...
- Thu Aug 30, 2012 3:57 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Opensource file-replacements.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6375
TL;DR : First, you must realize there is no spoon.
A driver's date does not say anything about its quality. If it is good enough and works, it does not need to be updated. How many of those companies did you pay for their software? Most likely you paid for the hardware, and they provided what was needed to make it functional. I'm sure they would be ...
- Mon Aug 20, 2012 4:33 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Reactos safety
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5880
Re: Reactos safety
If Windows implements an insecure design, such as those fixed in Windows Vista which caused many incompatibility problems, any implementation would be just as insecure. Also, Microsoft's codebase has been scrutinized by many people, both with source code and using binaries only, and bugs are still f...
- Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:54 am
- Forum: Design
- Topic: Can there be a better GUI?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 24695
Re: Can there be a better GUI?
There are plenty of shell replacements which, because they implement functionality equivalent or better than ReactOS, can replace the GUI. I have been following LiteStep for a long time, and although it has fragmented and fallen to the wayside as a result of XP themes, you can customize it any way y...
- Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:41 am
- Forum: Development Help
- Topic: Win32++
- Replies: 13
- Views: 16909
Re: Win32++
This is a terrible idea. If you want to make your own application using this framework, then please do so and report any bugs. It is open source, so as long as someone is willing to debug the problems, some Win32 issues may be found and fixed. For official ReactOS development, all programming should...