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by Aeneas
Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: What is ReactOS currently useful for?
Replies: 8
Views: 530

Re: What is ReactOS currently useful for?

Well, franky, what is the purpose of the L4 microkernel family? What is the purpose of NetBSD? What is the purpose of FreeDOS? What's the point of Boticelli's paintings, if I don't have one in my room? — You can say, the expression of creativity is purpose in and of itself, it leads to experience if...
by Aeneas
Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:11 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: Reactos paid version.
Replies: 8
Views: 839

Re: Reactos paid version.

Jokes aside, though: you might actually consider placing a donation-button on the webpage, e.g. the way Arduino does it - this is where it navigates you to if you just want to download it: https://www.arduino.cc/en/donate/ I know you on ReactOS.org have a button "Donate" NEXT TO "Down...
by Aeneas
Tue Jan 09, 2024 9:18 am
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: ReactOS is being needlessly inefficient by using clean-room when it's not legally required
Replies: 21
Views: 13831

Re: ReactOS is being needlessly inefficient by using clean-room when it's not legally required

decompile the hell out of a software and write a documentation. so what you are asking about is software that could decompile a dll or whatever and write comment tags that explain what the piece of code does? This is not only "practically difficult", this is truly "theoretically impo...
by Aeneas
Mon Jan 08, 2024 3:20 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: Why the negativity everywhere?
Replies: 10
Views: 1728

Re: Why the negativity everywhere?

Well, 1944 was perhaps not the best year to internationally propagate Wagner operas and Goethe's works, either, so I am with EmuandCo that "the times" are not helpful in the advertisement. About it being a "Russian" project - not true if you look at the developers, however, React...
by Aeneas
Sat Dec 30, 2023 11:56 am
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: Why is Wine capable of running Roblox, Office 2016 and other programs, but ReactOS is not?
Replies: 4
Views: 1732

Re: Why is Wine capable of running Roblox, Office 2016 and other programs, but ReactOS is not?

Because they haven't had a release in over two years and, counting since 0.1.0, the first version installable from CD, they have been "in alpha status" for over two decades.
by Aeneas
Mon Aug 14, 2023 9:36 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: USB network card?
Replies: 3
Views: 3011

Re: USB network card?

Thank you. So my take is, "zero USB network adapters work out of the box". As in, NONE. Well, that is an answer, too... :)
by Aeneas
Sat Aug 12, 2023 11:52 am
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: USB network card?
Replies: 3
Views: 3011

USB network card?

Hi everybody! So, I tried a nightly of a day ago, and I loved it — on real hardware, an old AMD Athlon 64 3000+ / 2 GB machine. Only gripes I was having: I had no network and my USB bluescreened on me. Now, without going into too much detail: Is there such a thing like a recommended USB network adap...
by Aeneas
Sun Aug 06, 2023 4:37 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: ROS and Win 10,11,...
Replies: 23
Views: 11256

Re: ROS and Win 10,11,...

On 8th April 2014, mainstream support for Windows XP ended. One may say, whoever "disliked" the newer OSes... one way or another, during the last DECADE, "got over it", whether by switching or enduring.
by Aeneas
Wed Jul 19, 2023 12:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: The one killer app missing from React OS
Replies: 55
Views: 28192

Re: The one killer app missing from React OS

Feel free to ask him. We won't. We have no big interest in money and losing our reputation completely for it. This. And having "Russians" on the project is a very different affair from having "present-day Russia" on the project - this is a software project, not a political proje...
by Aeneas
Fri Jun 30, 2023 5:02 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: ReactOS is being needlessly inefficient by using clean-room when it's not legally required
Replies: 21
Views: 13831

Re: ReactOS is being needlessly inefficient by using clean-room when it's not legally required

Being actually a lawyer, let me tell you: there is what „is“, and there is „what you can prove“. And unless you have a couple tenthousand Euro for expert opinions in cases of doubt (even if you win), the best idea is to stick to such approaches which you can prove immediately and easily (German: liq...
by Aeneas
Wed May 31, 2023 9:00 am
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: x86S
Replies: 4
Views: 3628

Re: x86S

Simplification of instructions, faster execution and cheaper chips. Itanium is incomparable - Intel sought "to force the industry" (and previously with the Intel iAPX 432, originally called 8800 in reference to 8080 and 8008, the "stopgap" to which being the 8086, and the rest is...
by Aeneas
Tue May 23, 2023 8:49 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: x86S
Replies: 4
Views: 3628

x86S

Hi everyone, Transitioning to 64 bit may indeed become more of a topic in the not too far away future — look at this: https://www.techspot.com/news/98773-intel-proposes-x86-s-architecture-simpler-more-efficient.html Unless, of course, one is fine with this being a "VM only OS", as likely w...
by Aeneas
Mon Feb 27, 2023 7:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: Reactos 0.4.15 release status ?
Replies: 17
Views: 10873

Re: Reactos 0.4.15 release status ?

+1 for the telemetry idea! Make it "opt-in" (not: "opt-out") and you are "safe". Best would be if there would be some automatic reporting on "how and why something crashed". It would surely help to have a "real-world-view" at least on the statistical...
by Aeneas
Sun Feb 05, 2023 12:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: Stage alpha or beta
Replies: 36
Views: 17158

Re: Stage alpha or beta

Yeah, but HOW will that money be used? "Upkeep of the website" does not accelerate development. To fund a couple dozen developers for a five years? Abjectly insufficient. To "create prizes"? Like, you reach X or Y and get 200/500/1000 EUR? Possible, and will give around a 100 &qu...
by Aeneas
Fri Feb 03, 2023 8:09 am
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: Stage alpha or beta
Replies: 36
Views: 17158

Re: Stage alpha or beta

I do see ARM coming, too, regardless of the eventual fate of x86 this or that way: 1. "Performance matters less": the majority of devices nowadays are mobiles, and so, in order to reach customers, you must make things "so they run on mobiles, too", sort of. This really is how Fla...