I think going the route of Windows Update wouldn't be the best idea. Something along the lines of apt from Debian/Ubuntu would be the best. Then it would handle both kernel/OS updates and also allow downloading/updating of non-essential programs.

Why ? I hope that peoples (and -why not- manufacturers too ) starts to write open source drivers right now ! I guess by people, I meant all people, including manufacturers ;) But the problem with Windows is, since there are manufacturer provided drivers, there's no motivation to create open source ...

I hope once ReactOS makes it into the mainstream that people are more inclined to make open source drivers for Windows/ReactOS, it'll make me feel more warm and fuzzy inside.

Just a note, that instead of Adobe Flash and Adobe Reader (which is bloated all to hell), you might check out Gnash (not really Win32 ready yet, but give it a bit) and Sumatra PDF. For antivirus, there's ClamWin. All these programs I suggested are open source and do their jobs well. And you might st...

Z98 wrote:These patents mean very little unless MS actually goes to court over them.

These patents mean very little unless MS actually says what they are.

Firefox 2.0 has spell check built in. I believe you can spell check for virtually any language.

Ok, nute, I am also an American and I have to say your comments have definitely been side stepped from the fundraising topic, are mostly false and I'm about to become a hypocrite: Of course Iraq is for money, look at the companies making huge profits at the expense of us paying money and lives in it...

Yes, this is a pretty recent bug in the SVN.

With Vmware Player, when I get that error, I press "esc" just after boot, when it mentions it on the bottom of the screen, and select CD-ROM from the menu.

Instead of a bounty system for developers, how about a pledge system for the ReactOS Foundation? Example: Somebody might say, I will donate $X to ReactOS for a fully functional USB stack. Other people might chip in, some developer steps in, does it, and although they don't get any money, ReactOS as ...

I've been getting it with both Qemu and VMware Player. If you look at the .log file, it says something about refusing to switch VGA modes, or something along that line.

I think one idea behind the open source model is that you could go in and take out whatever you what using the source code.

Your testing is appreciated, however, you should post in the compatilbility database instead of the forums when testing out programs.

Some of you thought it was not posible... here it is. the important thing to note is that this is a 0.3 release build (the one in the web site(install cd) @ http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/download.html nothing special.. running in vmware. Yes it was slower than usual(with all the crazy paging goin...

geertvdijk wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Free_software

Did anyone know that?

Very cool indeed! Now if only it would be featured on the main page