Eduard Glatz wrote:
> Now the question arised
> if there would be an interest in student thesis works
> as contributions to the reactos project.
>
> An overview of thesis works completed in the area of
> systems software can be found under:
>
> http://windows.hsr.ch/studienarbeiten.html
Many of the listed topic areas are either not relevant or too advanced for
ReactOS to support at the moment.
> If there is an interest in such contributions then
> we will have to discuss next the type of suitable tasks.
If the standard of work is high enough, i.e. if the student(s) are
proficient in C and NT programming, then there would certainly be great
interest from the ReactOS project in something like this.
However, even if the standard of work was not particularly high, we would
still encourage people to try and we would help in any way we could (or were
permitted to). The only concern from submitting low quality work would be
that it may not make it into the final ReactOS source code.
A few good examples of things we are looking for are listed in our 2006
Google Summer of Code page.
Two good contributions we received from this was a Windows clipboard
implementation and Remote Desktop.
Some suggestions are:
- Network card drivers
- mmc.exe replacement
- printer spooler support
- Explorer theming
- a choice of directx dlls
- bug fixing or improvements to a large choice of operating system
components.
- choosing existing win32 software, and ensuring ReactOS has the relevant
support to run it.
e.g. Apache, Ms Office, Photoshop, AutoCAD
Hope this helps.
Ged.
Hello all,
at our university we are offering thesis works for computer science students
in several areas of interest. Many of those works result in contributions to
existing open source projects or even initiate new ones.
My interests are in the area of operating systems. Now the question arised
if there would be an interest in student thesis works as contributions to
the reactos project.
An overview of thesis works completed in the area of systems software can be
found under:
http://windows.hsr.ch/studienarbeiten.html
Unfortunatley those descriptions are only in german. But at least many of
the english titles give you an indication what the tasks were.
If there is an interest in such contributions then we will have to discuss
next the type of suitable tasks.
Kind regards,
Edy
Eduard Glatz, Prof. Dipl.-Ing.
University of Applied Sciences HSR (Hochschule Rapperswil)
Department of Computer Sciences (Abt. Informatik)
Oberseestr. 10; 8640 Rapperswil; Switzerland; www.hsr.ch
P.s. it might help if I attached the app I mentioned ;)
James Tabor wrote:
> I have some arc code but it's not tested and I really want to finish this
ASAP!
After someone mentioned the state of the radio buttons the other day, I had
a quick look at it.
Our user32 code draws them pretty well (with one or two mods)
As we're swapping test apps, I've attached one comparing the Windows and ROS
variants.
The problem ultimately comes down to NtGdiPie, NtGdiEllipse.
If you don't have any updates to these 2 functions, I'll look at them when I
get chance.
> Here is a test program. Guess what part doesn't work?
They all look pretty good, but strangely, they all appear to draw 1 pixel
larger than the Windows version.
Does the Windows code draw slightly undersize?
Ged.
James Tabor wrote:
> I have some arc code but it's not tested and I really want to finish this
ASAP!
After someone mentioned the state of the radio buttons the other day, I had
a quick look at it.
Our user32 code draws them pretty well (with one or two mods)
As we're swapping test apps, I've attached one comparing the Windows and ROS
variants.
The problem ultimately comes down to NtGdiPie, NtGdiEllipse.
If you don't have any updates to these 2 functions, I'll look at them when I
get chance.
> Here is a test program. Guess what part doesn't work?
They all look pretty good, but strangely, they all appear to draw 1 pixel
larger than the Windows version.
Does the Windows code draw slightly undersize?
Ged.
FAO JimT (or anyone else who may have secret fixes in their tree, Filip ;) )
Do you have any improvements to the mentioned functions.
They need attention/improvement to improve the drawing of some of our UI
controls.
Don't wanna double up on work if someone already has something on this.
Cheers,
Ged.
I have just tried to compile the current trunk and it was broken. I am using
the latest trunk with the latest ROS Build.
Grant A. Brady
CIP
Way too Much Fun Productions
Email: Bragrsibak(a)gmail.com
Email: WTMFP1(a)gmail.com
Current project: Console Suite
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4:36 PM
I read in the news that a new virtual machine software got released
under GNU GPL v.2 (dual license) today (2007-01-15). It's called
VirtualBox (VirtualBox.org) and is partly based on qemu code. On of
the advantages are that it support Intel's VT (vanderpool), run as GUI
app on Win and Unix and support WinNT 6 without glitches (as heise.de
says).
News entry and review (both in german):
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/83680http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/83678
Heise.de said it is ready to compete with the latest versions of
VMware, Parallels and VirtualPC. If that statement is based on facts
or not and if it is a good reliable tool; I don't know as I have not
tested it myself, as I am busy right now. I just posted it here, as it
might be useful for someone.
Klemens
I'll probably get another weird email from the postmaster for this, but
it is sufficient to me to say that the GPL allows commercial ventures to
include code without the requirement of making the product open source.
There are a few rules though - and I'm not the one to ask about those,
but I know of many companies that include GPL code in their product
without the need to make their product open source.
Nathan
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From: ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org]
On Behalf Of Alex Ionescu
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:41 AM
To: ReactOS Development List
Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Yet another VM
Colin Finck wrote:
> Thanks for the information.
>
> This VM seems to be very good.
> I also did not test it, but looked at the screenshots: VirtualBox
supports
> multiple snapshots and the closed-source version, which is also
available at
> no price for personal use, also supports USB devices. You can connect
to
> virtual machines over RDP and the virtual USB ports will also be
available
> through RDP.
> The closed-source version also has some unique features like mounting
iSCSI
> targets as virtual disks. AFAIK no other Workstation virtualization
product
> supports this at the moment.
>
> In my opinion, we should support VirtualBox as a new testing platform
for
> ReactOS, since it contains more features than QEMU and is open-source
unlike
> VMware.
> It would also be easier to use for new users, who did not run a PC
emulator
> before.
>
> Regards,
>
> Colin
It's funny how you're all going on about how good it is without even
having tested it.
QEmu supports multiple snapshots as well, as it does USB, and it's fully
open source. QEmu supports named pipes, mounting raw hard drives and any
other disk that Windows can see, audio, networking etc. So I don't think
it contains anywhere near as many features as QEMU, especially since
most of the advanced ones you mentionned are *not* Open Source.
I'm also quite curious on how they were able to take QEMU (a GPL
product) and add USB support under closed source (which QEMU already has
as GPL). Sounds like a bunch of hacks to me.
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Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
Project Lead, TinyKRNL
Kernel-Mode Software Design Engineer, ReactOS
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