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by Wierd
Sun Feb 13, 2005 1:55 am
Forum: Support
Topic: How to modify Qemu c.img file
Replies: 9
Views: 10676

If properly created, VMware images are exactly the same as bochs, or Qemu images.

It is the 'sparse' image format of VMware that is proprietary.

As for why I think filedisk is better? I have had problems with image corruption with VDK, and newer vmware images.
by Wierd
Sat Feb 12, 2005 11:56 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: How to modify Qemu c.img file
Replies: 9
Views: 10676

A better alternative, is filedisk. It is GNU, and is available Here.
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by Wierd
Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:51 am
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: Networks; the hopes and dreams of a network admin
Replies: 12
Views: 10661

For a local LAN, Windows (ReactOS) would be able to suffice, but for internet use serving, nothing beats good old Linux for stability, performance, and security. The real reason for making a "server" flavor of ROS would be to eliminate the INSANE licensing costs involved in having a genuin...
by Wierd
Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:43 am
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: plans for dial up?
Replies: 9
Views: 10821

"Dialup Adaptor"

The windows TCP/IP stack doesnt discern the difference between dialup and ethernet, because dialup uses an NDIS wrapper driver, called "Dialup Adaptor" for dialup connections.

Basically, you need:

1)Serial port driver
2)Tapi support
3)PPP driver
4)DialupAdaptor clone
5)TCP/IP
by Wierd
Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:48 am
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: Mascot for ReactOS
Replies: 116
Views: 82836

ReactOS doesnt use MS proprietary code in any way to my knowledge. In fact, the ROS devs are very picky about that. What ROS *DOES* copy, is the presentation of application interfaces. These MUST be copied, in order for application interoperability. The actuall innards underneath those interfaces ar...
by Wierd
Mon Jan 10, 2005 11:06 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: New Subsystem Ideas
Replies: 92
Views: 60479

I seem to recall Steven mentioning something about wanting to institute a bounty system... THis would be a good thing to put a bounty on. Course, it would have to be broken up between the devs that would be involved, as an entire subsystem would take more than just one developer to implement... THis...
by Wierd
Sat Jan 08, 2005 6:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: win9x kernel
Replies: 10
Views: 12592

Actually, the instability issues are inherant with the architecture style of 9x. Basically, The problems with it can be descibed in the following points 1) Win9x allows programs to directly access memory and hardware devices, allowing programs to essentially trump the kernel's control. This means th...
by Wierd
Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:02 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: Porting ReactOS to different Hardware...
Replies: 87
Views: 46378

Simply not loading EXPLORER.EXE doesnt kill the GDI subsystem. It is still running, and will try to execute on demand when a graphical application is launched from the console propmpt.

This does not happen in Linux, becuase Linux wasnt built with a GUI in mind.
by Wierd
Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:19 am
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: Porting ReactOS to different Hardware...
Replies: 87
Views: 46378

Actually, depending on the viewpoint, you are both right. Linux itself doesnt include X. Linux is a kernel; It just so happens that most linux distros come with various versions of BASH, X, and other environments that make the kernel useful. X, BASH, and other linux "shells" are all indepe...
by Wierd
Sun Dec 19, 2004 12:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: Porting ReactOS to different Hardware...
Replies: 87
Views: 46378

I am no expert, but I think that the win32 API is pretty high-level, and that nearly all hardware access and such is handled by the kernel infrastructure; So long as the application image can be loaded into memory, and interpereted, it can be executed.

I could be mistaken however.
by Wierd
Sun Dec 19, 2004 12:16 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: mingX under development
Replies: 4
Views: 5589

When it comes to GNU environments that I would like to see, I would like to see a windows(actually, ReactOS) native port of KDE, and GNOME. If those two were compiled for win32, with some added support structures, it would sadly strike a hard blow at the Linux Desktop--- but it WOULD give ReactOS us...
by Wierd
Sat Dec 18, 2004 10:23 am
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: Plans for Windows 3.1 16-bit subsystem?
Replies: 33
Views: 29499

Win16 subsystem-

It seems to me that there are a few people around that want to totally ignore the need for a WOW implementation; feeling that if they bury their head long enough, it will just blow over. I couldnt code my way out of a wet paper bag, so it isnt my place to say (at least in terms of difficulty of impl...