Hi all!
During the monthly meeting yesterday, there was a high demand for full
Office 2010 support under ReactOS. Let's call that Word, Excel and
PowerPoint for now. If we get these applications to work, the potential
customer may generously sponsor the ReactOS Project.
While Hermès is already working on getting Word 2010 support as part of
the ReactOS Community Edition, he has shown that this task easily splits
into many subtasks, like full NTLM implementation, Printing, etc.
If anybody volunteers to work on these, or otherwise contribute to get
the full Office 2010 to work under ReactOS, we would be willing to
support this with our foundation funds too!
As a first step, let's make a list of related tasks and add them to
https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-12279
Hermès can probably help here. If you have other ideas on how to help
with Office 2010, don't hesitate to tell. This needs teamwork!
Let's not miss this opportunity to make ReactOS usable for the mass!
- Colin
Hi all!
Hermès and me have just decided to go to FOSDEM this year. Which is a
really good idea considering that we have a booth to staff there ;)
Planning is currently happening at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ofYUc7j0XwDH9SmNlGzNZlO8jOGhoPUn7KTRcFm…
Just request access if you're a ReactOS member and like to add or
comment stuff there.
Hermès will be preparing an ISO in the upcoming days. Please test
current trunk to see if any last minute fixes need to go there. If you
have ideas what cool apps we shall show at FOSDEM, please also share
them here.
We will go with burning and giving away CDs again (hopefully the last
time before USBs do it).
I hope that this definite plan will also motivate others to join us or
visit our booth! :)
Cheers,
Colin
Hello,
Let me invite you to the monthly status meeting taking place today, 26th
of January, 19:00 UTC. We skipped the last meeting because of holidays
and unavailability of people.
IRC service will only be started shortly before the meeting. Your
participation passwords and server address will be emailed to you
shortly before the meeting starts, and they are going to be different
once again as they are not stored in any database. Hopefully it's not
much of inconvenience.
Alternatively we'll do it in #reactos-meeting on Freenode, depending on
our admins mood.
Please send agenda proposals to me before the meeting so we don't waste
time trying to setup the agenda directly during the meeting.
Regards,
Aleksey Bragin
Hi all,
In order to make our ISOs flashable to USB drives and bootable from them
(cf. CORE-12648), I'm currently overhauling our ISO boot sector
"isoboot.S". This adds a lot of code and while I stay in the 2K size
limit when assembling it with GAS, I break it with MASM.
Disassembling the assembled files shows the difference.
A line like:
mov word ptr ds:[GetlinsecPtr], ax
is assembled by GAS to:
A35B50 mov [0x505b],ax
while MASM does this:
67A35B500000 mov [dword 0x505b],ax
Is there any option to enforce the shorter opcode sequence for MASM too?
The code uses a lot of similar MOVs and this seems to be the only reason
why I break the 2K size limit with MASM.
If there is no such option, what are the advantages of using MASM for
our MSVC build anyway? Can't we just use GAS for both or decide on a
common third-party assembler (NASM) for our assembly files?
Cheers,
Colin
Hello Aleksey,
About readiness to get merged I think decision should be done by Thomas or Amine.
Related to collaboration with ROS, as I have informed on one of the monthly meetings, I have willing to contribute ReactOS. But for now I have probelm with time which is depend on many factors. We can schedule meeting in IRC or wherever you want, to discuss how I can help to our project.
Thanks,Vardan.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
-------- Original message --------From: Aleksey Bragin <aleksey(a)reactos.org> Date: 12/20/16 03:00 (GMT+04:00) To: ReactOS Development List <ros-dev(a)reactos.org> Subject: [ros-dev] USB from GSoC
Hello!
What happened to the USB branch made by Vardan during GSoC 2016? Is it
ready to be merged, or if not, what's holding it? Any input is
appreciated, especially from Vardan himself.
Regards,
Aleksey Bragin
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Hello and happy new year,
soon the deadline for CLT 2017 is here (07.01.) and that time I'd like
to add the needed minimum of two ppl there BEFORE that. So... who will
join me to https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de aka 11./12.03.2017 in
Chemnitz? The sooner I know it the better it is for planning ^^ (Quite
shocking that it's almost a year again since list years CLT...) I am
open for anyone asking to take part, BUT I would prefer guys who already
were there and know what they will have to expect regarding masses of
ppl, strange guys going on your nerves on a 15 min basis and of couse
the fun we will have, too. So pleaase answer ASAP.
I will join IRC today, too. So if anyone has some nice recent pics of
milestones running in ROS, GIMME plz ^^
Greetings
Daniel