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- Sun Sep 17, 2017 1:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Upcoming Libre Office 5.4 to be last to support XP
- Replies: 21
- Views: 19199
Re: Upcoming Libre Office 5.4 to be last to support XP
Lets face the truth, we cannot stop the death of NT5.X and the only way to make things stay alive is supporting NT6.X applications. That is a known fact amongside the ROS developers already and the first step will most likely be using the app compatibility feature for doing so. But this still needs...
- Fri Aug 04, 2017 3:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Upcoming Libre Office 5.4 to be last to support XP
- Replies: 21
- Views: 19199
Re: Upcoming Libre Office 5.4 to be last to support XP
It's really sad to see Open Source community to follow MS policy
- Mon Jul 03, 2017 4:19 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: can we stop supporting closed source please?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 47462
Re: can we stop supporting closed source please?
Open source is good only for collaborative development by a group of people. I remember several cases when individual developers deeply regretted releases under GPL and just close the source (for example, MenuetOS 64bit). Some individuals just don't want anybody messing with their creations . Not ev...
- Wed Jun 14, 2017 1:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Some questions to ROS developers
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3860
Some questions to ROS developers
1. Would it be a good idea to use UEFI calls (on UEFI motherboards) to interface "native" devices: USB, LAN, SATA? 2. Would it be hard to implement "change window DPI"? I mean user interface to change DPI for the specific window (form), not the whole desktop. I'm just wondering, ...
- Wed Jun 14, 2017 11:57 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: ReactOS and QubesOS
- Replies: 11
- Views: 11106
Re: ReactOS and QubesOS
there is no more parasitic and wasting thing as hardware virtualization. it's just a black hole sucking everything into nothing, both power watts and developer resources. I saw that miss(is) Rutkowska has also an article called "x86 considered harmful". Right. To get yourselves messing up...
- Sat Mar 18, 2017 1:43 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Office 2010 support
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13108
Re: Office 2010 support
Sorry, it's rather off topic.
Would it be better to support "KingSoft Office" instead? http://www.ksosoft.com/ ?
It's fully compatible with MS and it's free. I use its older version - perfect!
Would it be better to support "KingSoft Office" instead? http://www.ksosoft.com/ ?
It's fully compatible with MS and it's free. I use its older version - perfect!
- Fri Mar 17, 2017 5:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: How to prevent ROS from becoming bloated
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3832
How to prevent ROS from becoming bloated
MS Windows includes a lot of stuff that may be of low use (useless in most cases). Independent developers created several applications to allow end-users to remove "excessive" stuff, for example https://www.ntlite.com/ , https://www.grc.com/freeware/dcom.htm , https://www.grc.com/unpnp/unp...
- Tue Aug 25, 2015 2:08 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Windows 10 is officially a spyware and an adware
- Replies: 86
- Views: 166902
Re: Windows 10 is officially a spyware and an adware
bullet-proof system you think is an absolute must Not a must, I don't actually ask you to do that. My main point was that in terms of security, portabilization of the applications during installation is preferable to installations done "MS-way". And I mostly agree with the rest of your po...
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:42 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Windows 10 is officially a spyware and an adware
- Replies: 86
- Views: 166902
Re: Windows 10 is officially a spyware and an adware
Your, level of paranoia ... you're refusing to actually learn from anything that has been said to you. I wery well understand what you're saying in your posts. Your false sense of security is amazing. You sound like UAC can not be by-passed, well-behaving applications are bug-free, access permissio...
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:17 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Windows 10 is officially a spyware and an adware
- Replies: 86
- Views: 166902
Re: Windows 10 is officially a spyware and an adware
You are also making extremely ludicrous accusations against Microsoft. We get it. You don't like the company. Your position is however not shared by the majority of the core developers, many of whom use Microsoft produced tools to help develop ReactOS itself. As others have said, the goal of this p...
- Wed Aug 19, 2015 7:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: ROS vs. MS Windows. What has to be different?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6545
ROS vs. MS Windows. What has to be different?
We all know the goal of the ROS development team to make ROS "drop-in replacement" for MS Windows. However, there are some contradictions in that plan, and I believe, the sooner they get resolved, the better. Let's begin with simple questions: Would ROS support DRM? Would ROS spy on its us...
- Wed Aug 19, 2015 7:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Installations / MSI
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9173
Re: Installations / MSI
Are you kidding What's the purpose then? Just for fun and, possibly, money?karlexceed wrote:ROS is absolutely not anti-MS.
Do you like MS being monopoly?
Do you like how MS treats users?
What about the spirit of free software (ROS is GPL)?
- Wed Aug 19, 2015 6:30 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Windows 10 is officially a spyware and an adware
- Replies: 86
- Views: 166902
Re: Windows 10 is officially a spyware and an adware
My experiences with SELinux begs to differ. It's a heavily sandboxed restricted environment that tends to break applications in mysterious and unexpected ways unless one does a lot of manual work tuning the permissions. So, if you want to do a lot of grunt work yourself to get your system to work a...
- Tue Aug 18, 2015 2:27 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Windows 10 is officially a spyware and an adware
- Replies: 86
- Views: 166902
Re: Windows 10 is officially a spyware and an adware
UAC's achievements are not about how successful it is in getting end users of Windows to pay attention to it. UAC is a manifestation of Microsoft making a fundamental change to permission levels for applications. Previously applications could assume that they had access to pretty much everything, c...
- Mon Aug 17, 2015 4:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Installations / MSI
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9173
Re: Installations / MSI
Windows already has a mechanism for dealing with per-app compatibility, it's called SxS. ROS will be adopting that. And in all seriousness, it's not really Microsoft's fault that developers of older applications did a crappy job packaging. Despite it not being their fault they've actually gone to c...