The NTFS support for volume mount points, is that it allows you to create these symbolic "directory" links within a NTFS volume, to some other volume. But even without NTFS you can still have volume mount points, managed by the mount manager, that appear in the NT namespace as \??\Volume{SOME-GUID-H...

Unix-versions (Solaris, Linux, BSD, BeOS, MacOS X, NextStep, ...) don't have this nonelastic system of drive letters for addressing. The file system is here independent of the hardware. The hardware (disks, floppies, cdroms, ram, ...) cant be mounted via mountpoints in the file system. Otherwise yo...

If Linux had only "supporters" that asked things to be done without actually implementing them properly, Linux wouldn't be where it is now and you would not be using it as well.

Do you think that the real MS Windows have been developed by just 10 active developers? And linux?

Hello, I wanted to update ReactOS on an old Duron 700. The previously installed version was more than 10 years old. I had to go back from 0.4.13 to 0.4.11 to get it running. All more recent versions resulted in a BSOD. One of my main problems is, that the device manager no longer lists my PS/2-mous...

learn_more wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:09 pm

workstation 7?
that is from 2009...

Who cares? Windows et al. can run on VMWare Workstation 7 --> ReactOS can do that too.

> the original Windows NT 3.5

the original Windows NT 3.1

> so instead of formulating a practice, Linux allows users to choose the way of life more . It still imposes the way/practices of *Nix to the developers. In other words, using "everything is a file" instead of the more abstract but powerful "everything is an object" of the NT kernel, amongst other t...

> The Linux command line is very powerful, open source and highly customizable. This is why Linux is so popular during development. The original intention of open source is not for freedom but for customization. AT&TUNIX has always been copyrighted, but the source code is still available. This is to...

Shadowblitz16 wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 05, 2020 11:46 pm

I don't think we should add newer visual studio's to react os as they are written in wpf instead of win32.

And how WPF itself is written, then?

Why would you spend time on something like this if you can use visual studio? Why spend time on Linux when there is Unix? Why spend time on ReactOS when there is Windows? You see the pattern? I personally would like a truely free and open source IDE. But whatever suits you. Greetings Peter The goal...

It's more like the filesystem is destroying itself, instead of freeldr.

Interesting... Nevertheless at that time the code was compatible with whatever version of GCC/MinGW that was existing back then (in 2004).

Since you want to compile the explorer_old from ROS 0.2.0, are you using the correspondingly older version of RosBE, that uses an older version of GCC that should be more lenient concerning these sorts of warnings?

The "Ramdisk" boot item menu is a template, where you have yourself to manually change the file name and provide a RAM raw disk image file.