FOSDEM 2017 - It's happening!

[Colin Finck]

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/1ofYUc7j0XwDH9SmNlGzNZlO8jOGhoPUn7KTRcFma...
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

[Hermès BÉLUSCA-MAÏTO]

Hello all!

Since this message is sent to the public mailing list, let me mention which programs I have in top of my head, that would be nice to have for the show (most of them are already in rapps, but it would be nice to retest them just to be sure ...) :
- Foxit PDF Reader,
- Notepad++ (6.9, or latest version 7+),
- Word/Excel/PPT viewers (the PPT viewer wants a printer available, and iirc it is also calling a stubbed print API function, Cc Colin ;) )
- LibreOffice, if possible. I know that the latest versions somewhat make ReactOS hang (--> win32k?), so possibly using an older version.
- Photoshop? Does this even run on ROS?
- Far Manager 3+
- Some DOS games (Daniel/Victor/someone else please send suggestions!)
- ...

Best,
Hermès

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Objet : [ros-dev] FOSDEM 2017 - It's happening!

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/1ofYUc7j0XwDH9SmNlGzNZlO8jOGhoPUn7KTRcFma...
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

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[Colin Finck]

Am 26.01.2017 um 11:57 schrieb Alexander Rechitskiy:
> Was the idea to sertup USB-flash drive giveaway with ReactOS on FOSDEM
> buried?

I already wanted to buy USBs for FOSDEM 2015, but you need to order
custom ones (with printed ReactOS logo) around 3 weeks in advance. We
definitely don't have that time left given that we only yesterday got
the minimum number of people to staff a booth.
Standard USBs without any logo are no option. Nobody will associate them
with ReactOS and we would just give away free drives.

Even then, I still don't consider live RAM booting a nice solution.
Let's get real USB booting to work and maybe we'll have nice USB
giveaways at one of the other exhibitions this year.

- Colin

[Thomas Mueller]

> Am 26.01.2017 um 11:57 schrieb Alexander Rechitskiy:
> > Was the idea to sertup USB-flash drive giveaway with ReactOS on FOSDEM
> > buried?
> I already wanted to buy USBs for FOSDEM 2015, but you need to order
> custom ones (with printed ReactOS logo) around 3 weeks in advance. We
> definitely don't have that time left given that we only yesterday got
> the minimum number of people to staff a booth.
> Standard USBs without any logo are no option. Nobody will associate them
> with ReactOS and we would just give away free drives.
> Even then, I still don't consider live RAM booting a nice solution.
> Let's get real USB booting to work and maybe we'll have nice USB
> giveaways at one of the other exhibitions this year.
> Colin

I've been hoping for a long time for USB booting to work for ReactOS.

I haven't done anything on ReactOS because my hard drives are partitioned GPT, and no way to bootably install ReactOS to USB stick.

How does RAM booting work?  Do you boot GRUB2 and select an .iso image or hard-drive image and run in RAM?  Or syslinux with memdisk?

Feel free to change the subject line if this deviates from the current subject.

Tom